Losing South Korea

By Gordon G. Chang

What would happen if the maniacal tyranny in Pyongyang took over the vibrant democracy of South Korea? Today, there is a real possibility that the destitute North Korean regime will soon dominate its thriving southern neighbor, with help from the government in Seoul itself.

More than any South Korean president before him, Moon Jae-in is intent on achieving Korean union, even if it’s done on Pyongyang’s terms. To that end, he has been making South Korea compatible with the totalitarian North, and distinctly less free. He is also removing defenses to infiltration and invasion and taking steps to end his country’s only real guarantee of security, the alliance with the United States.

If Moon’s policy results in handing Kim Jong Un a “final victory” and South Korea falls to despotism, America will lose the anchor of its western defense perimeter, and the free world will be at risk.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Encounter Books
• Release date: Mar 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9781641770699

Gordon G. Chang

Gordon G. Chang, who lived and worked in Asia for almost two decades, is the author of Losing South Korea, Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World, and The Coming Collapse of China.

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Table of Contents

Cover

The Alliance ‘Forged in Blood’

Flags of the Enemy

A ‘New Korea’

Kim in Seoul

The Nuclear Crisis

South Korea’s Last President?

Copyright

THE MILITARY ALLIANCE between the United States and South Korea should continue forever, President Moon Jae-in declared in early November 2018. The South Korean leader said:

The Korea-U.S. alliance was forged in blood amid the artillery fire of the war, but it didn’t stop there. It is developing into a great alliance that is creating peace on the Korean peninsula, drawing security and prosperity to the South and the U.S. and leading peace and stability in Northeast Asia.

Judging from Seoul’s official statements, the alliance, now spanning seven decades since the end of the fighting in the Korean War, appears to be strong. That is a matter of importance to every American because for more than a century U.S. policymakers have drawn their country’s western defense perimeter not off the coast of California, or Hawaii, or Guam, but off the coast of East Asia. South Korea, on the tip of the Asian continent, anchors the northern end of that forward line of defense.

The loss of South Korea, therefore, would be grievous for America. Now, unfortunately, the relationship between the blood allies looks like it might not last much longer.

President Moon, despite his inspiring words, is working hard to end the pact. He first wants a declaration of an end to the war and then a treaty to formally bring the conflict to a close. His senior advisors, many of whom openly support Pyongyang, are on record saying there will be no need for American troops after

Reviews for Losing South Korea

[‎이지원(인문과학대학 영어영문학부) · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I have strong doubts as to the accuracy. It seems quite biased too and wrong info is embarrassingly obvious.