1. The Rise and Fall of KEDO: A Case of Multilateral Engagement with North Korea
- Author:
- Joel Wit, Robert Carlin, and Charles Kartman
- Publication Date:
- 11-2009
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Abstract:
- When the South Korean fast ferry Hankyoreh sailed out of North Korean waters into the cold wind and waves of the East Sea on the morning of 8 January 2006, it carried a sad and somber group of South Korean workers, ROK officials, and personnel from the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO). These were all that remained of a decade long multinational effort transforming what in 1994 had been only a paper notion into a modern construction complex of steel and concrete. KEDO's profile on the North Korean landscape was unmistakable, its impact on Pyongyang profound. Yet, real knowledge and understanding about the organization in public and official circles in South Korea, Japan, and the United States was terribly thin at the beginning, and rema ins so to this day.
- Topic:
- Communism, Diplomacy, International Cooperation, and Nuclear Weapons
- Political Geography:
- United States, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea