Posted on November 6, 2009 in North Korea, South Korea, United States.

This week, we’re featuring recent policy briefings by the Ilmin International Relations Institute at Korea University. The third in the series is by Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Cha writes:

Finally, if nuclear weapons is Pyongyang’s endgame, then what should be ours? The stated endgame for the Six Party talks is denuclearization. This should continue to be the case. But the true endgame for denuclearization, which can never be stated officially but should drive our thinking, is unification. That is, we shall never achieve a verifiable and irreversible end to the North’s nuclear menace until we have a reunified peninsula, free and at peace.”

Download the entire briefing here.