Korea and Strategic Reassurance with China

Korea offers not only dangers and risks, but opportunities that could be useful in contributing to a mutual concept of strategic reassurance that Beijing and Washington, along with key U.S. allies like the Republic of Korea, should attempt to introduce into their relationship in a systematic way in the years ahead. The United States has now "rebalanced" toward the Asia-Pacific. But it needs a central organizing concept for what, together with allies, it will do in the region now that it is "back." Coordinating with China about how to handle, cooperatively, any possible major military scenario on the Korean Peninsula as well as the aftermath of any such scenario is a good place to start.