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Book Daily Report  Foreign Radio Broadcasts

Download or read book Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daily Report

Download or read book Daily Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1974-12 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea During the Cold War Era

Download or read book Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea During the Cold War Era written by Nick Eberstadt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicholas Eberstadt presents an impressive compilation of hard-to-find comparative data on economic performance for North Korea and South Korea over two critical generations.

Book North Korea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hy-Sang Lee
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2000-11-30
  • ISBN : 0313086265
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book North Korea written by Hy-Sang Lee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As perennial famine and material shortages call into question the tenability of North Korea's military-authoritarian government, the international community has struggled to reconcile contradictory humanitarian, economic, and political goals in formulating foreign policy and aid responses to the secretive Pyongyang regime. In a historical analysis drawing heavily on primary sources, Lee attacks the problem at its root: the assumption of policy-makers that Pyongyang's belligerence and intractability is an attempt to secure autonomy and national legitimacy in the eyes of the world. Rather, Lee argues, close review of the available evidence demonstrates convincingly that forced reunification with South Korea is the only discernible goal of the Pyongyang government, and that the key strategy of the reunification program is a war of attrition against the U.S. military presence in the South. Lee begins with a summary history, and moves on to examine the formation of the North Korean communist state in the wake of World War II. The implementation of state programs in the 1950s and 1960s follows, including the drive towards industrialization, the emergence of the Juche ideology, and collectivization of agriculture. Remaining chapters focus on the recent history of North Korea, and offer concluding analysis and remarks.

Book Korean Communism  1945 1980

Download or read book Korean Communism 1945 1980 written by Dae-Sook Suh and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Two Koreas and the United States

Download or read book The Two Koreas and the United States written by Wonmo Dong and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title addresses the fragility of the political, economic, and military balance within the two Koreas and Northeast Asia. The chapters analyze the factors that gave rise to the persisting cold war on the Korean peninsula as well as the changing relationships with the US and other powers.

Book Korea Approaches Reunification

Download or read book Korea Approaches Reunification written by Nick Eberstadt and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Maps -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Economic Development and Government Policy in Divided Korea: 1945-1990 -- 2. Military Buildup in the DPRK: Some Indications from North Korean Data -- 3. North Korean Society Today: A Statistical Glimpse -- 4. Policy Issues in a Peaceful Korean Reunification -- 5. U.S. Policy Toward Korea: The Impending Challenges -- Index

Book The Pueblo Incident

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mitchell B. Lerner
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2002-05-10
  • ISBN : 0700612963
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Pueblo Incident written by Mitchell B. Lerner and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2002-05-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remember, you are not going out there to start a war," Rear Admiral Frank Johnson reminded Commander Pete Bucher just prior to the maiden voyage of the U.S.S. Pueblo. And yet a war-one that might have gone nuclear-was what nearly happened when the Pueblo was attacked and captured by North Korean gunships in January 1968. Diplomacy prevailed in the end, but not without great cost to the lives of the imprisoned crew and to a nation already mired in an unwinnable war in Vietnam. The Pueblo was an aging cargo ship poorly refurbished as a signals intelligence collector for the top-secret Operation Clickbeetle. It was sent off with a first-time captain, an inexperienced crew, and no back-up, and was captured well before the completion of its first mission. Ignored for a quarter of a century, the Pueblo incident has been the subject of much polemic but no scholarly scrutiny. Mitchell Lerner now examines for the first time the details of this crisis and uses the incident as a window through which to better understand the limitations of American foreign policy during the Cold War. Drawing on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents from President Lyndon Johnson's administration, along with dozens of interviews with those involved, Lerner provides the most complete and accurate account of the Pueblo incident. He weaves on a grand scale a dramatic story of international relations, presidential politics, covert intelligence, capture on the high seas, and secret negotiations. At the same time, he highlights the very intimate struggles of the Pueblo's crew-through capture, imprisonment, indoctrination, torture, and release-and the still smoldering controversy over Commander Bucher's actions. In fact, Bucher emerges here for the first time as the truly steadfast hero his men have always considered him. More than an account of misadventure, The Pueblo Incident is an indictment of Cold War mentality that shows how the premises underlying the Pueblo's risky mission and the ensuing efforts to win the release of her crew were seriously flawed. Lerner argues that had U.S. policymakers regarded the North Koreans as people with a national agenda rather than one serving a global Communist conspiracy, they might have avoided the crisis or resolved it more effectively. He also addresses such unanswered questions as what the Pueblo's mission exactly was, why the ship had no military support, and how damaging the intelligence loss was to national security. With North Korea still seen as a rogue state by some policymakers, The Pueblo Incident provides key insights into the domestic imperatives behind that country's foreign relations. It astutely assesses the place of gunboat diplomacy in the modern world and is vital for understanding American foreign policy failures in the Cold War.

Book Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era  1945 91

Download or read book Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era 1945 91 written by Nicholas Eberstadt and published by AEI Press. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Policy and Economic Performance in Divided Korea during the Cold War Era: 1945–91, Eberstadt presents an impressive compilation of hard-to-find comparative data on economic performance for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (ROK, or South Korea) over two critical generations. By a number of indicators, Eberstadt argues, Kim Il Sung's North Korea actually outperformed South Korea for much of this period—not only in the years immediately following partition, but perhaps also into the 1970s.

Book Problems of Communism

Download or read book Problems of Communism written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daily Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 838 pages

Download or read book Daily Report written by United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents and Materials  of The  Third Congress of the Workers  Party of Korea  April 23 29  1956

Download or read book Documents and Materials of The Third Congress of the Workers Party of Korea April 23 29 1956 written by Chosŏn Nodongdang. Taehoe and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daily Report  East Europe  Index

Download or read book Daily Report East Europe Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Dictionary of North Korea

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of North Korea written by Ilpyong J. Kim and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiled in this book are the people, places, political system, economy, ideology, and the history of North Korea.

Book Tyranny of the Weak

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles K. Armstrong
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2013-06-25
  • ISBN : 0801468949
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Tyranny of the Weak written by Charles K. Armstrong and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To much of the world, North Korea is an impenetrable mystery, its inner workings unknown and its actions toward the outside unpredictable and frequently provocative. Tyranny of the Weak reveals for the first time the motivations, processes, and effects of North Korea's foreign relations during the Cold War era. Drawing on extensive research in the archives of North Korea's present and former communist allies, including the Soviet Union, China, and East Germany, Charles K. Armstrong tells in vivid detail how North Korea managed its alliances with fellow communist states, maintained a precarious independence in the Sino-Soviet split, attempted to reach out to the capitalist West and present itself as a model for Third World development, and confronted and engaged with its archenemies, the United States and South Korea. From the invasion that set off the Korean War in June 1950 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Tyranny of the Weak shows how—despite its objective weakness—North Korea has managed for much of its history to deal with the outside world to its maximum advantage. Insisting on a path of "self-reliance" since the 1950s, North Korea has continually resisted pressure to change from enemies and allies alike. A worldview formed in the crucible of the Korean War and Cold War still maintains a powerful hold on North Korea in the twenty-first century, and understanding those historical forces is as urgent today as it was sixty years ago.

Book Area Handbook for North Korea

Download or read book Area Handbook for North Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Korea Approaches Reunification

Download or read book Korea Approaches Reunification written by Nicholas Eberstadt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a detailed picture of the divergent socio-economic trends in divided Korea since its 1945 partition. It also covers the social and political situation in the North and South today, and the domestic and international challenges to a successful Korean reunification.