Download or read book Korea the Divided Nation written by Edward Olsen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following its liberation from Japanese colonialism, at the end of WWII, Korea was divided into two separate nations. Because the Korean nation enjoyed a long dynastic history, its postwar partition was particularly traumatic. The ensuing Cold War years spawned the Korean War and subsequent decades of strained inter-Korean relations and tensions in the region surrounding the peninsula. This volume provides readers who are unfamiliar with Korea's heritage insight into how Korea became a divided nation engulfed in international geopolitical tensions, providing expert analysis of this rendered nation's background, modern circumstances, and future prospects. The Korean peninsula in Northeast Asia is home to a country that was divided at the end of the Second World War after its liberation from Japanese colonialism. Because the Korean nation enjoyed a long dynastic history, its postwar partition was particularly traumatic. The ensuing Cold War years soon spawned a very hot Korean War and subsequent decades of strained inter-Korean relations and tensions in the region surrounding the peninsula. This volume provides readers who are unfamiliar with Korea's heritage with insight into how Korea became a divided nation engulfed in international geopolitical tensions, providing expert analysis of this rendered nation's background, modern circumstances, and future prospects. After a survey of Korea's geographic setting and historic legacy, Olsen details the circumstances of Korea's liberation and subsequent division. Drawing on that background, he analyzes the evolution of both South Korea and North Korea as separate states, surveying the politics, economics, and foreign policy of each. What are the key issues for each state from an international perspective? What are the prospects for reuniting the two into one nation? What challenges would a united Korea be likely to face? Olsen determines that stability in Korea is essential to future peace in the region. He concludes that a successful move toward unification is the best way to resolve issues connected to North Korea's nuclear agenda.

Download or read book Korea written by Se-Jin Kim and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Koreas written by Theodore Jun Yoo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Korea is one of the last divided countries in the world. Twins born of the Cold War, one is vilified as an isolated, impoverished, time-warped state with an abysmal human rights record and a reclusive leader who perennially threatens global security with his clandestine nuclear weapons program. The other is lauded as a thriving democratic and capitalist state with the thirteenth largest economy in the world and a model that developing countries should emulate. In The Koreas, Theodore Jun Yoo provides a ... gateway to understanding the divergent developments of contemporary North and South Korea. In contrast to standard histories, Yoo examines the unique qualities of the Korean diaspora experience, which has challenged the master narratives of national culture, homogeneity, belongingness, and identity"--

Download or read book Divided Nation written by Histrophillia Editors and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year was 1950. Under the cover of night, swarms of North Korean soldiers flooded across the 38th parallel, the hastily improvised line dividing North and South Korea. As the blare of artillery fire and thunder of tank rounds shattered the predawn calm, the Korean War began in full fury. This surprise attack almost drove American-backed Southern forces into the sea until a daring amphibious assault far behind enemy lines turned looming defeat into total victory. But soon triumph catastrophically reversed yet again when waves of Chinese troops joined the Communist North in vicious counterattack pushing allied armies reeling back down the peninsula. Thus erupted the devastating three-year conflict that solidified Korea's division while shaping the destinies of key figures like Kim Il-Sung, Syngman Rhee and Douglas MacArthur. Their decisions amidst rapidly shifting battlefronts and tensions between America, China, and the Soviet Union produced a stalemate leaving unhealed scars across the bitterly split Korean nation even today. In the war's tortured aftermath, both sides painfully rebuilt while preparing for renewed conflict along the most heavily armed border on Earth, the Demilitarized Zone formed where trench warfare finally burnt itself out after horrific carnage waved like the tides of war back and forth across Korea destroying cities, ripping apart families, and ending millions of lives. The armistice only froze the front lines without resolving ideological divisions fueling high tensions up to the nuclear brink in subsequent decades. This book unravels the complex origins and military progression of America's first hot conflict of the Cold War era through gripping character studies of the major Korean and world leaders who fatefully shaped this divisive crucible forging the divided country still struggling towards reunification. Period interviews with common soldiers and civilians immerse readers on all sides of the intensely personal violence whose legacy still haunts the peninsula today. With intricate detail and historical insights complemented by veteran accounts of pivotal battles, the narrative traces escalating border skirmishes in 1949 climaxing with North Korea's overwhelming blitzkrieg southwards that nearly extinguished the Republic of Korea in months before precarious reversal then retreat once Chinese armies join the Communist war effort. As UN and Chinese/North Korean forces bleed each other into grueling standoff near the original border, readers experience the tense truce talks dragging on for years while men died in droves contesting meaningless miles of ruined hillsides like Pork Chop Hill. This defining 20th Century conflict merits renewed study as Kim Jong-Un's nuclear brinksmanship continues threatening regional stability to enforce the North's totalitarian rule and perpetuate the Kim dynasty personality cult. By illuminating the Korean War's complicated history, this powerful chronicle provides essential perspective, insight and understanding towards present day frictions as well as glimpses into pivotal leadership decision points impacting millions during those fateful years imprinting division across Korea down to today's headlines.

Download or read book Korea written by Committee for Solidarity with the Korean People and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Divided Nations and Transitional Justice written by Sang-Jin Han and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Divided Nations and Transitional Justice" is a collection of significant writings contributed by the late president Kim Dae-jung of the Republic of Korea and former president Richard von Weizsaecker of Germany. This book presents insightful views, lifetime career experiences, and expertise of the two prominent leaders in the critical fields of unification, peace, and justice and reconciliation. It centers on the cases of Korea, Germany and Japan, and considers how these countries have moved to address and come to terms with their wartime past. This book moves to deliver messages of hope and vision on how to further the values of peace, reconciliation and cooperation in the twenty-first century."

Download or read book Diplomatic Recognition Problems of a Divided Nation written by Sukyong Joan Choi and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Politics And Policies In Divided Korea written by Young Whan Kihl and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1984-07-29 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Diplomatic recognition problems of a divided nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Two Koreas written by Hakjong Yoo and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Living Together on the Korean Peninsula written by Myung-Soo Lee and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Korean War written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The DMZ written by Rober Koehler et al. and published by Seoul Selection . This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four kilometers wide and stretching 250 km from the East Sea to the West Sea, the Korean Demilitarized Zone divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half, with the Republic of Korea to the south and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north. Born of the fratricidal Korean War, it is perhaps the oldest continuous symbol of the Cold War and a tense border separating the two halves of the world's last divided nation, where democracy and communism still glare at one another in mutual animosity. Nowhere is this more evident than at the Joint Security Area (JSA) near the so-called "truce village" of Panmunjeom, where South Korean and North Korean soldiers stand practically face to face, the hostility almost palpable.

Download or read book Divided Dynamism written by John J. Metzler and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided Dynamism presents a cogent and comprehensive review of the political and unification policies of separated nations. This book relates a brief historical capsule about each divided nation, illustrates the socio/economic dynamic of the divide, and offers a searing and poignant political synthesis for future unification options. Exploring the unique roads to national unity, John J. Metzler studies each individual state and looks at diplomatic relations in their historical context and economic aid as a foreign policy program. He presents each country’s official view of reunification and offers different scenarios for both Korean and Chinese reunification. Divided Dynamism provides an invaluable record of the dynamics of modern politics in the post-Cold War era. The book also explores the lessons learned from Germany’s reunification and what this means for both Korea and China.

Download or read book Division System in Crisis written by Nak-chung Paik and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Download or read book North Korea South Korea written by John Feffer and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2003-09-20 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Korea written by Martin Hart-Landsberg and published by . This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Korean unification is one of the most important issues on the international agenda today. Hart-Landsberg's broad-ranging inquiry develops a perspective that is rarely heard, and that merits careful attention. It is a valuable contribution to a debate that should not be delayed." --Noam Chomsky