If war can be reduced to a competition over money and control over the land, people, and the resources that produce it then it should be possible to pay in advance to prevent it. Author Shepherd Iverson uses this underlying premise to provide an alternative to every book written about the North Korean nuclear threat and growing East Asia militarism. Far less permeable to economic sanctions than Iran has been, North Korea requires a different sort of economic approach to peace. Taking a cultural as well as a geoeconomic approach, Stop North Korea: A Radical New Approach to Solving the North Korea Standoff proposes that reunification is the best, possibly only, way to denuclearize North Korea, end its government's oppressive regime and create a fruitful, sustainable peace. "In a new book, Stop North Korea!: A Radical New Approach to the North Korea Standoff, Shepherd Iverson of Inha University in Seoul proposes bribing North Korean civilian and military leaders to abandon Kim through a 'Reunification Investment Fund' of $175 billion." Asia Times (800,000/visits month) See Review HERE "At the core of Iverson's proposal to "Stop North Korea" is an "unorthodox," albeit highly intriguing, $175 billion Reunification Investment Fund, designed to pay-for-peace by disbursing financial incentives to every North Korean" -Smithsonian Asia Pacific American Center (30,000/visits month) See Review HERE *Author Shepherd Iverson writes about North Korean standoff for Forbes. Book is mentioned in bio. See article HERE "...it is time to start thinking outside the box, and Shepherd Iverson's book proposes one of the new innovative approaches which should be given a thought." -Dr. Andrei Lankov North Korea Specialist Kookmin University "Any respectable college course on Korea should have this book on its syllabus." -Dr. Jae H. Ku Director, U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS The Johns Hopkins University