Gorbachev visited Jeju in the spring of 1991 for a historic Soviet-South Korea summit; later that year, the Soviet disintegrated and the Cold War ended peacefully and unexpectedly. This session commemorates the 30th anniversary of the end of the Cold War. Building on thirty years of scholarship on Cold War history, it seeks to understand why the Cold War ended in Europe when it did and how it could end peacefully. Three renowned Cold War historians will distinguish myths from facts, identify the factors that contributed to the peaceful ending of the Cold War in Europe, and find ways to emulate these factors in Northeast Asia, where the Cold War has not still ended and a nuclear war is not out of the question.