The Two Koreas_ A Contemporary History - Don Oberdorfer [252]
In Japan, Izumi Hajime of Shizuoka University was particularly helpful in providing insights and materials about the DPRK, on which he is a leading expert.
Among the many persons who agreed to interviews, I wish especially to thank
IN THE UNITED STATES:
Former secretaries of state Cyrus Vance and George Shultz; former undersecretaries of state Michael Armacost, Robert Zoellick, Arnold Kanter, and Frank Wisner; former assistant secretaries of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs Marshall Green, Richard Holbrooke, Paul Wolfowitz, the late Gaston Sigur, Richard Solomon, and William Clark, as well as Winston Lord, who was assistant secretary during my research; former deputy assistant secretaries of state Robert Oakley and Thomas Hubbard and the current holder of the post, Charles Kartman; former chief U.S. Korea coordinator and negotiator Robert Gallucci and his senior deputy, Gary Samore; former Korea country directors Robert Rich, Harry Dunlop, Spence Richardson, David E. Brown, and David G. Brown, and the current country director, Mark Minton.
At the Pentagon, former secretaries of defense James Schlesinger, Donald Rumsfeld, and Harold Brown, as well as William Perry, who held the post during my research; Morton Abramowitz; Admiral William Pendley; Captain Thomas Flanigan; and Mr. Wally Knowles.
At the White House, former national security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski, Richard Allen, and Brent Scowcroft, as well as Anthony Lake, who held the post during my research; former National Security Council staff members William Hyland, Nick Platt, Jim Kelly, Doug Paal, Torkel Patterson, Kent Wiedemann, Stanley Roth, and Daniel Poneman.
In the intelligence community, former CIA director Robert Gates; the expert North Korea watchers in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Robert Carlin, Kenneth Quinones, and John Merrill, as well as nuclear expert Steve Fleischmann; former national intelligence officers Evelyn Colbert, John Despres, Nathanial Thayer, Carl Ford, and Ezra Vogel; Morgan Clippinger and other Korea experts of the Central Intelligence Agency; and former U.S. intelligence officials John Armstrong and the late Jim Hausman.
Former congressman Stephen Solarz.
From the U.S. embassy, Seoul, former U.S. ambassadors to the ROK William Gleysteen, Richard Walker, James Lilley, and Donald Gregg, as well as James Laney, who was U.S. ambassador during the period of my research; former deputy chiefs of mission Francis Underhill, Richard Ericson, Raymond Burkhardt, and Dick Christenson; former U.S. embassy political counselors Paul Cleveland and Daniel Russel; and former military attache Jim Young.
In the U.S. Command, Korea, former commanders-in-chief Generals John Wickham, Robert Sennewald, Robert RisCassi, Gary Luck, and current CINC General John Tilelli; Lieutenant General Howell Estes; retired Lieutenant Generals James Hollingsworth and John Cushman; special assistant to the USFK commander Stephen Bradner; USFK historian Major Thomas Ryan; former U.S. representative to the Military Armistice Commission (MAC) Jimmy Lee; former MAC secretary Colonel Forrest Chilton; public information officer Jim Coles and his predecessor Billy Fullerton.
Among Korea experts in the United States, Peter Hayes of the Nautilus Institute; nuclear weapons expert Bill Arkin; Bruce Cumings of Northwestern University; Joseph Ha of Lewis and Clark College; Dae-Sook Suh of the University of Hawaii; Charles Armstrong, then of Princeton University; Han S. Park of the University of Georgia; Edward Olsen of the Naval Postgraduate School; Manwoo Lee of Millersville University; and Sanghyun Yoon of George Washington University.
Also Larry Niksch and Rinn Sup Shinn of the Congressional Research Service; Tony Namkung of the Atlantic Council; Selig Harrison and Leonard Spector of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Ralph Clough of SAIS; Daryl Plunk of the Heritage