Download or read book The Partition of the Korean Peninsula written by Gerry Boehme and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yalta Conference is best known for planning the division of Germany after Nazi surrender, but by drawing the Soviet Union into the Pacific theater of World War II, it also laid the groundwork for the partition of the Korean peninsula along the 38th parallel. Cold War tensions were high when the communist North invaded the capitalist South in 1950, setting off the Korean War, which ended in a stalemate and an unchanged border. This intriguing volume explains this lesser-known portion of World War II and Cold War history, from the Soviet influence on Japan's surrender in World War II to the creation of the two Korean countries we know today, while exploring how these circumstances brought us to the current strained political landscape.
Download or read book The Partition of Korea After World War II written by Jongsoo James Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-05-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on multi-archival research in Korean, Russian and English, this book looks at the complexity and changes in Stalin's policy toward Korea for answers about the division of Korea in 1945 and the failure of reunification between 1945 and 1948. Lee argues that the trusteeship decision is key to the division's origins and permanency.
Download or read book The Politics of Separation of the Korean Peninsula 1943 1953 written by Pong-nyong Sin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was Korea separated? Why have the Koreans been unable to overcome the line of demarcation separating them over the last 60 years? Why did the Korean War break out? Many scholars studying contemporary Korean history have been conducting a detailed analysis of these very subjects. Traditionalists tend to place blame on the Communist Bloc, including Soviet Russia, while revisionists see the responsibility lying with United States anticommunist imperialism. Throughout this controversial process, Korean scholars have been neglectful of a self in dealing with these issues. Basedon historicism, this book considers at its core a series of tragic Korean historical events as civil or internal conflicts and aims to reflect on Koreas own historical mistakes and errors. In this respect, this study can be categorized as being rerevisionist. This book was written with the conviction that the Korean Peninsula was not divided by other, external powers but separated from within.
Download or read book The Divided Korean Peninsula written by Nicola Seu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the West, interest about Korea is often limited to its unnatural division and the peculiar regime in the North of the Peninsula. However, its culture is rich, its history a thousand years-old, its land populous, and its economy spectacularly growing. How is it possible that such a country, a key figure in the recent history of Asia would only call to mind advanced technology or nuclear threat? This book is drawn from the personal experiences of the author, who lived in South Korea and experienced it two different times, in 2000 and 2010, and had the possibility of going back in 2017. In all his time there, he tasted all the characteristics, the contradictions, merits and defects of this halved and impenetrable country.
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 Operations in Korea written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The War for Korea 1945 1950 written by Allan Reed Millett and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked the start of one of the last century's bloodiest conflicts. In volume 1, Allan Millett, however, reveals that the Korean War actually began with partisan clashes two years earlier and had roots in the political history of Korea under Japanese rule, 1910-1945. In volume 2, he shifts his focus to the twelve-month period from North Korea's invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950, through the end of June 1951 -- the most active phase of the internationalized "Korean War."
Download or read book Crisis in a Divided Korea written by James I. Matray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Korean War written by Jeremy P. Maxwell and published by Amber Books Ltd. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Korean War is a highly-illustrated account of the political, military and ideological conflict between the communist North and the democratic South.
Download or read book The Korean War written by R. G. Grant and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in British English, The Korean War describes the conflict between communist North Korea and U.S.-supported South Korea for control of the Korean peninsula.
Download or read book The End of North Korea written by Nick Eberstadt and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prolonging North Korea's life may actually increase the costs and the dangers of its inevitable demise.
Download or read book The Korean War written by 50minutes, and published by 50Minutes.com. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Korean War in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Korean War. On 25 June 1950, North Korean troops marched across the 38th parallel, the imaginary border between the North and South of the peninsula. This marked the escalation of diplomatic tensions into open conflict, and resulted in a three-year war of attrition which claimed millions of lives. Despite major contributions from Chinese, American and UN forces, there was no clear winner in the conflict, and Korea remains divided to this day. In just 50 minutes you will: • Learn about the events leading up to the outbreak of war in Korea, including the partition of the country after the Second World War and the contentious elections of 1948 • Find out about the key figures and battles in the conflict, including General Douglas MacArthur and Kim Il-sung • Understand the outcome of the war and its consequences, which are still felt today ABOUT 50MINUTES.COM | History & Culture 50MINUTES.COM will enable you to quickly understand the main events, people, conflicts and discoveries from world history that have shaped the world we live in today. Our publications present the key information on a wide variety of topics in a quick and accessible way that is guaranteed to save you time on your journey of discovery.
Download or read book Divided Korea written by Roland Bleiker and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the prevailing logic of confrontation and deterrence on the Korean peninsula.
Download or read book The Korean War written by Andrew James Birtle and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first twelve months of the Korean War (June 1950-June 1951) had been characterized by dramatic changes in the battlefront as the opposing armies swept up and down the length of the Korean peninsula. This war of movement virtually ended on 10 July 1951, when representatives from the warring parties met in a restaurant in Kaesong to negotiate an end to the war. Although the two principal parties to the conflict -- the governments of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (ROK or South Korea) -- were more than willing to fight to the death, their chief patrons -- The People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union the one hand and the United States and the United Nations (UN) on the other -- were not. Twelve months of bloody fighting had convinced Mao Tse-tung, Joseph V. Stalin, and Harry S. Truman that it was not longer in their respective national interests to try and win a total victory in Korea. The costs in terms of men and materiel were too great, as were the risks that the conflict might escalate into a wider, global conflagration. Consequently, they compelled their respective Korean allies to accept a truce talks as the price for their continued military, economic, and diplomatic support"--Page [3].
Download or read book The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War written by Monica Kim and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula. But The interrogation rooms of the Korean War presents an entirely new narrative, shifting the perspective from the boundaries of the battlefield to inside the interrogation room. Upending conventional notions of what we think of as geographies of military conflict, Monica Kim demonstrates how the Korean War evolved from a fight over territory to one over human interiority and the individual human subject, forging the template for the U.S. wars of intervention that would predominate during the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond. Kim looks at how, during the armistice negotiations, the United States and their allies proposed a new kind of interrogation room: one in which POWs could exercise their "free will" and choose which country they would go to after the ceasefire. The global controversy that erupted exposed how interrogation rooms had become a flashpoint for the struggles between the ambitions of empire and the demands for decolonization, as the aim of interrogation was to produce subjects who attested to a nation's right to govern. The complex web of interrogators and prisoners -- Japanese-American interrogators, Indian military personnel, Korean POWs and interrogators, and American POWs -- that Kim uncovers contradicts the simple story in U.S. popular memory of "brainwashing" during the Korean War
Download or read book The Cold War and the Division of Korean Peninsula written by Jong Chun Baek and published by . This book was released on 1982* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
