Over the Line : North Korea's Negotiating Strategy [Hardcover]

James R. Lilley (Author), Chuck Downs (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1999

This book sets out the record of North Korea's international negotiating posture during the armistice. Downs draws important conclusions from the North's manipulation of international talks and cautions policymakers to be alert to the regime's negotiating tactics. Originally published in 1998.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 340 pages
• Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press; First Edition edition (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0844740284
• ISBN-13: 978-0844740287
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,014,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Required reading for those who deal with North Korea, January 15, 2000

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"bmport" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over the Line : North Korea's Negotiating Strategy (Hardcover)

I deal with North Koreans on a regular basis, and Chuck Downs's book should be required for all who deal with North Korea, or for that matter South Korea. Whether in the public or private sphere, this is an important book and should be read by anyone who negotiates on behalf of the United States.

Mr. Downs has written a practical book with historical anecdotes and penetrating insights.

Bravo!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you know something about Korea it would be interesting, March 11, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Over the Line: North Korea's Negotiating Strategy (Paperback)

I would like to have either more on the actual negotiating or more on the history but the book seems to jump back and forwards between the two leaving me the reader a bit confused. So someone like myself who knows little about US and North Korea relations got little from this book.

Disappointingly it does not include that much about how other goverments (in particular South Korea) reacted and played in these talks.

However if you want to know about how the North Korean goverment have behaved with the US this is a very good book. I was stunned to read the sort of documents the US has had to sign in dealing with the North Koreans.

It shows the limitation that the US faces even in a region that it is the major power.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Diplomacy on the brinkmanship, July 15, 2003

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Marceli Burdelski (Gdansk Poland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over the Line: North Korea's Negotiating Strategy (Paperback)

Chuck Downes has written exellent book. The history diplomatic contacts United States with North Korea was begin in 1951. Military Armistice Comissionn in Panmunjom was to 1993 only one channel diplomatic contacts. Chuck Downs described north korean diplomatic behaviour. Tis diplomacy on the brinkmanship. This continue now by Kim Chong-il. Spreading nuclear programme after withdrawal from nonproliferation regime. Book is detailed description events in history this contact. Murders axes from Panmujom accident , Pueblo warship case, Submarine commando strikers are only leading examles this activity. This book is needed for all diplomats, scholars , journalists try understand korean issue.