Keeping The Peace: America in Korea, 1950-2010.

• Author: Sempa, Francis P.

Keeping The Peace: America in Korea, 1950-2010

By Sung-Yoon Lee, Fletcher School, Tufts University file://localhost/Text/ www.hillsdale.edu:news:imprimis.asp Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa, Contributing Editor

In a speech at Hillsdale College to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War, Sung-Yoon Lee of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts warned against the false promise of diplomacy with the North Korean communist regime. North Korea, he explained, is not interested in peace unless such a "peace" results in the unification of the Korean peninsula under its rule.

The "fundamental geopolitical dynamic of the region," he noted, is that "a power vacuum in Korea is an invitation to aggression." This is the lesson of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45, and the Pacific War of 1941-45.

The North Korean revolution, he noted, rages on. North Korea's immediate goal is to "evict" U.S. forces from South Korea. This would alter the...