The book contains the transcript of a critical oral history conference which explored the origins of North Korea's military adventurism in the late 1960s, and features the testimony of veteran South Korean, U.S., and East German diplomatic and intelligence officials directly involved in Korea policy during the turbulent period. In addition to the conference transcript, the book includes a 100-page appendix of newly obtained and translated East German, Russian, Czech, and U.S. documents on the 1968 Blue House raid, the seizure of the USS Pueblo, and the 1969 shootdown of the unarmed EC 121 spy plane.

• The emergence of antagonistic identities
• The persistence of cold war antagonisms
• The geopolitical production of danger
• Toward an ethics of dialogue
• Dilemmas of engagement
• Toward an ethics of difference.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Strategic asymmetry and North Korea's asymmetric threat
• 3. Cyber threat and Inter-Korean relations
• 4. Unmmanned aerial vechicles and Inter-Korean relations
• 5. Conclusion and proposal.