Crisis In A Divided Korea

Author : James I. Matray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610699938

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This book provides scholars and students examining Korea's place in modern world politics with an invaluable resource for understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the ongoing crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Why is Korea still divided into two nations? How does the decades-old tension between North Korea and South Korea affect all of Asia as well as influence several of the world's major powers, including Japan, the People's Republic of China, Russia, and the United States? This book provides answers to these questions and more, presenting readers with descriptions of historical developments in Korea's past and supplying the necessary context for understanding why the Korean Peninsula remains split at the 38th parallel. Two comprehensive opening chapters present a broad overview of events in Korea's history from ancient times through the start of World War II. The subsequent chapters cover Korea's role in the Cold War, describing the Soviet-American sponsorship of two Koreas, the Korean War, Soviet and Chinese support for North Korea, the U.S. alliance with South Korea, South Korea's long struggle to achieve democracy, the Kim dynasty in North Korea, and moments of tension and cooperation between North and South Korea. Written in a clear, direct, and accessible style, the book will be valuable to high school, undergraduate, and graduate-level students.

Author : James Irving Matray
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Korea
ISBN : 9798400633942

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"This book provides scholars and students examining Korea's place in modern world politics with an invaluable resource for understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the ongoing crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Provides readers with an understanding of the reasons for the existence of two nations on the Korean Peninsula. Exposes how outside powers have intervened in Korean affairs throughout its modern history--with disastrous results. Explains the development of North Korea into an isolated nation with a government determined to possess nuclear weapons. Suggests avenues for Korea's reunification and the achievement of permanent peace and stability on the peninsula"--

Author : Nak-chung Paik
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520289888

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Division System in Crisis by Nak-chung Paik Pdf

"This volume represents the first English-language collection by the renowned Korean cultural and political critic Paik Nak-chung. Paik's omnipresent theme is the 'division system' on the Korean peninsula, the peculiar logic by which one nation remains divided into two states. These deeply humanistic essays foreground the needs of ordinary citizens and call for globally relevant solutions to Korea's divided reality."--Publisher's website.

Author : Gavan McCormack,Mark Selden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0853454485

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Korea, North and South by Gavan McCormack,Mark Selden Pdf

Author : John Feffer
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609802745

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North Korea/South Korea by John Feffer Pdf

The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the brink of war with North Korea. Misinterpretations and misunderstandings are fueling the crisis. "There is no country of comparable significance concerning which so many people are ignorant," American anthropologist Cornelius Osgood said of Korea some time ago. This ignorance may soon have fatal consequences. North Korea, South Korea is a short, accessible book about the history and political complexites of the Korean peninsula, one that explores practical alternatives to the current US policy: alternatives that build on the remarkable and historic path of reconciliation that North and South embarked on in the 1990s and that point the way to eventual reunification.

Author : John Feffer
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1583226036

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North Korea/South Korea by John Feffer Pdf

The Korean peninsula, divided for more than fifty years, is stuck in a time warp. Millions of troops face one another along the Demilitarized Zone separating communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. In the early 1990s and again in 2002-2003, the United States and its allies have gone to the brink of war with North Korea. Misinterpretations and misunderstandings are fueling the crisis. "There is no country of comparable significance concerning which so many people are ignorant," American anthropologist Cornelius Osgood said of Korea some time ago. This ignorance may soon have fatal consequences. North Korea, South Korea is a short, accessible book about the history and political complexites of the Korean peninsula, one that explores practical alternatives to the current US policy: alternatives that build on the remarkable and historic path of reconciliation that North and South embarked on in the 1990s and that point the way to eventual reunification.

Author : Roland Bleiker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0816645574

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Divided Korea by Roland Bleiker Pdf

In 2002, North Korea precipitated a major international crisis when it revealed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program and announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Earlier in the year, George W. Bush had declared North Korea part of the "axis of evil," and soon afterward his administration listed the country as a potential target of a preemptive nuclear strike. Pyongyang's angry reaction ensured the complete deterioration of relations on the Korean peninsula, where only two years before the leaders of North and South Korea had come together in a historic summit meeting. Few international conflicts are as volatile, protracted, or seemingly insoluble as the one in Korea, where mutual mistrust, hostile Cold War attitudes, and the possibility of a North Korean economic collapse threaten the security of the entire region. For Roland Bleiker, this persistently recurring pattern suggests profound structural problems within and between the two Koreas that have not been acknowledged until now. Expanding the discussion beyond geopolitics and ideology, Bleiker places peninsular tensions in the context of an ongoing struggle over competing forms of Korean identity. Divided Korea examines both domestic and international attitudes toward Korean identity, the legacy of war, and the possibilities for-and anxieties about-unification. Divided Korea challenges the prevailing logic of confrontation and deterrence, embarking on a fundamental reassessment of both the roots of the conflict and the means to achieve a more stable political environment and, ultimately, peace. In order to realize a lasting solution, Bleiker concludes, the two Koreas and the international community must first show a willingness to accept difference and contemplate forgiveness as part of a broader reconciliation process. Roland Bleiker is professor of international relations at the University of Queensland. From 1986 to 1988 he served as chief of office for the Swiss delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission in Panmunjom.

Author : Jack Van DerSlik
Publisher : WildBlue Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781947290167

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The Korean Crisis by Jack Van DerSlik Pdf

An in-depth portrait of the two Koreas and their turbulent relationship—from the author of Eisenhower: A 20th Century Hero in War and Peace. After nearly 70 years of division between North and South Korea, the two nations have not yet achieved a peaceful settlement. Professor Emeritus Jack Van Der Slik’s book provides a first person account of the incredible differences between the nations. The Korean Crisis: One People, Two Nations, an Uncertain Future follows the fate of the two Koreas. The first is a story of hard-earned success by the South Korean people. Although democracy did not come easily, it did accompany flourishing through market capitalism. The second, the fall of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, began with early economic success then sank into a socialist dictatorship, stratifying the country’s people into a small privileged elite supported by a poor and cheerless mass of disadvantaged workers. Despite the poverty and food insecurity suffered by the North Korean underclass, the ruling elite has formidably armed itself with nuclear weapons and a massive standing army. The Korean Crisis draws upon deep studies of democratization in South Korea and Van Der Slik’s own travels throughout the Republic of Korea and Panmunjom—the heavily armed 38th parallel and the site of peace negotiations. Intensely researched, highly informative, and poignantly told, The Korean Crisis will educate the public about Korea and the dangers that exist there while shedding light on a possible catastrophic nuclear conflict between the two rival countries whose combatants are, in fact, one people.

Author : Ho Youn Kwon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015072785259

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Divided Korea by Ho Youn Kwon Pdf

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Author : Korea Committee
Publisher : Nottingham : Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation for Spokesman Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Korea
ISBN : UCSC:32106019466470

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Crisis in Korea by Korea Committee Pdf

Author : R. Myers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-05-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780312299583

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Korea in the Cross Currents by R. Myers Pdf

The Korean peninsula underwent a continuous number of earth-shaking events in the twentieth century - although it is generally out of the earthquake zone. Jutting off the extreme northeast edge of the Eurasian landmass, and with a combined population of nearly seventy million people, North and South Korea are situated among China, Japan and Russia. They are also profoundly influenced by the United States because of the circumstances of the Korean War (1950-1953). The issues of war and peace, left over from the Korean war, remain unresolved; these two separate states are the residue of the Cold War. This anomaly still poses ominous prospects for war or peace in Asia, and American national security interests. Focusing on the last hundred years of Korea's long history, and its particular relationship with China, one is in a position both to understand and marvel at the events of this century on the Korean peninsula. At the same time, the complexity of the division of the country into North and South Korea - not just a perennial struggle between good and evil, although that is certainly part of the story - places the future at risk. There was one terrible war that divided the 20th century in half and there are threats of more trouble to come. This study of the history of the past century will provide some answers and open the way to informed speculations.

Author : Nick Eberstadt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Korea (North)
ISBN : UCSD:31822023557408

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Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea, 1945-1995 by Nick Eberstadt Pdf

Author : Stephan Haggard,Marcus Noland
Publisher : Peterson Institute
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780881325157

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Witness to Transformation by Stephan Haggard,Marcus Noland Pdf

"Human rights and the protection of refugees is not a concern of left or right, or of the US only; it is an issue of importance to all Koreans, and indeed all countries. Haggard and Noland provide compelling evidence of the ongoing transformation of North Korean society and offer thoughtful proposals as to how the outside world might facilitate peaceful evolution."--Yoon Young-kwan, former Foreign Minister, Rob Moo-byun government --Book Jacket

Author : Bruce Cumings
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393347531

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Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated Edition) by Bruce Cumings Pdf

"Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book Review Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and decimated by the Korean War, has recently seen the first real hints of reunification. But positive movements forward are tempered by frustrating steps backward. In the late 1990s South Korea survived its most severe economic crisis since the Korean War, forcing a successful restructuring of its political economy. Suffering through floods, droughts, and a famine that cost the lives of millions of people, North Korea has been labeled part of an "axis of evil" by the George W. Bush administration and has renewed its nuclear threats. On both sides Korea seems poised to continue its fractured existence on into the new century, with potential ramifications for the rest of the world.

Author : Jesook Song
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822390824

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South Koreans in the Debt Crisis by Jesook Song Pdf

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001). Jesook Song argues that while the government proclaimed that it would guarantee all South Koreans a minimum standard of living, it prioritized assisting those citizens perceived as embodying the neoliberal ideals of employability, flexibility, and self-sufficiency. Song demonstrates that the government was not alone in drawing distinctions between the “deserving” and the “undeserving” poor. Progressive intellectuals, activists, and organizations also participated in the neoliberal reform project. Song traces the circulation of neoliberal concepts throughout South Korean society, among government officials, the media, intellectuals, NGO members, and educated underemployed people working in public works programs. She analyzes the embrace of partnerships between NGOs and the government, the frequent invocation of a pervasive decline in family values, the resurrection of conservative gender norms and practices, and the promotion of entrepreneurship as the key to survival. Drawing on her experience during the crisis as an employee in a public works program in Seoul, Song provides an ethnographic assessment of the efforts of the state and civilians to regulate social insecurity, instability, and inequality through assistance programs. She focuses specifically on efforts to help two populations deemed worthy of state subsidies: the “IMF homeless,” people temporarily homeless but considered employable, and the “new intellectuals,” young adults who had become professionally redundant during the crisis but had the high-tech skills necessary to lead a transformed post-crisis South Korea.