PREFACE

There is a precedent : In year 2000, then the presidential candidate Bush and the Republican Party presented its policy pledges on East Asia during the campaign.  However, the Armitage-Nye Report, a non-partisan report prepared by the Japan researchers in America, was published in September of the same year and tremendously influenced the formulation of East Asia strategies once the Bush administration had been set in place.

With a sense of emergency, the Peace Foundation has prepared the policy suggestions on Korean Peninsula and East Asia to the new administration, not only for the peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and North East Asia but also for the common interests of Korea and the US. The policy suggestions by the Peace Foundation aim to build the common ground based on ample understanding between the experts of Korea and US, and to contribute to the development of mutually advantageous relations.

The policy suggestions contain the results of coordinated researches done by various experts in the Peace Foundation. However, its potential value lies not in the formulation of unique policy suggestions by the Peace Foundation. Rather, it emphasis rests on the formulation of policies for the true peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and East Asia that hopefully matches the policy directions of the new administration. Therefore its strength lies more on the conglomeration of up-to-date discussions than uniqueness. 

With the limited number of researchers in the Peace Foundation, it was not possible to cover the vast subjects on East Asia¡¯s peace and stability. Therefore, the opinions of domestic experts as well as the policy suggestions published in the internal and external strategy reports have been used as references. In addition, we tried to reflect as much as possible the opinions of the American experts. Since last year, there were private discussions between the experts of the Peace Foundation and the US officials in the administration, and open discussions with the Foreign Affairs Committee staff in the US Senate and these discussions formed the basis of the report. In order to understand the national goals and the policy directions of the new administration, the proposed policies and pledges offered by President-Elect Obama and his staff, and the policies and procedures of the Democratic Party have been used as references. 

Finally, it should be noted that this report does not fully reflect the individual opinions of the coordinated research team. There were some researchers who had expressed different opinions. In addition, this does not represent the universities or research organizations that the coordinated research team members belong. However, as a result of group research, it would be acceptable to take this report to represent the most common views of the coordinated research team members.

● Co-Chairpersons :
 Ven. Pomnyun (Chairperson),
 Yoon, Yeo-joon (Advisory Committee member, Chairman of the Korea Local                          Development Institute)

● Representative writer :
 Cho, Seong-ryoul (Director, Senior Fellow at Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS))

● Unification/Foreign Affairs Part:
 Cho, Min (Director, Senior Research Fellow, Korea Institute for National Unification),   
 Baek, Seung-joo (Director, Senior Researcher, Korean Institute for Defense Analysis),
 Kim, Haklin (Research Fellow, Professor of Dankook Center  for Dispute Resolution),  
 Lee, Mun-gi (Research Fellow, Professor of China Business & Trade at Yuhan College),  
 Yoon Young-hwan (Research Fellow, Lawyer of Duksu Law Offices)

● North Korea Economy / Development Part:
 Kwon, Young-kyong (Director, Prof of Education Center for Unification),
 Lee, Young-hoon (Research Fellow, Economist in the Institute for Monetary and Economic Research at the Bank of Korea),
 Koo, Hae-woo (Research Fellow, Exec Director of the Future Foundation),
 Dong, Yong-seung (Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Samsung Economic Research Institute)

● North Korea Society/Human Rights Part:
 Kim-Young-soo (Director, Prof in political science of Sogang University),
 Kim, Soo-am (Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Korea Institute for National Unification),
 Kim, Dong-kyun (Auditor, Lawyer of Dasan Law Coporation)

Preface
Executive Summary

I. Evaluation on the 8 Years of the Bush Administration
  1. Negative Inheritances to Overcome
  2. Positive Achievements to be inherited

II. The U.S.’s role for resolving DPRK nuclear Issues
  1. New Approaches to DPRK Denuclearization
  2. Three portfolios to Resolving North Korea Issues
  3. Efforts to Improve North Korea Human Rights

Ⅲ. U.S.-ROK Cooperation for Institutionalized Peace Regime in the Korean Peninsula
  1. Pursuing the Trilateral Military Agreement among ROK, North Korea and the U.S.
  2. Second Process for Institutionalized Peace Regime
  3. A Trio of Denuclearization, North Korea-U.S. Diplomatic Ties and Peace Agreement

Ⅳ. Joint Tasks of ROK and the U.S. for the Peace and Stability in North East Asia
  1. Reconstruction of ROK-U.S.Alliance based on Shared Common Values
  2. Formation of North East Asia Multilateral Security System
  3. Global Cooperation for War against Terror

Ⅴ. Policy Suggestions