The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465031238ISBN-10:465031234UPC:9780465031238Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Geopolitics, ModernBook Topic:Korea, 20th CenturySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.3Product ID:SC8AMBTM3K
An acclaimed history of the Korean Peninsula from World War II to the present day North Korea is an impoverished, famine-ridden nation, but it is also a nuclear power whose dictator Kim Jong-un regularly threatens his neighbors and adversaries, the United States in particular, with destruction. Even though Kim and President Donald Trump's responses to him dominate the daily headlines, the idea that North Korea is a menace is not a new one. Indeed, ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted-and threatened to embroil -- the rest of the world. In this landmark history, veteran journalist Don Oberdorfer and Korea expert Robert Carlin grippingly describe how a historically homogenous people became locked in a perpetual struggle for supremacy -- and how other nations including the United States have tried, and failed, to broker a lasting peace.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465031238ISBN-10:465031234UPC:9780465031238Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Asia, Geopolitics, ModernBook Topic:Korea, 20th CenturySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.3Product ID:SC8AMBTM3K
Don Oberdorfer wrote for the Washington Post for twenty-five years, and was later on the Chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He died in 2015. Robert Carlin is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and former chief of the Northeast Asia Division in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Publisher: Basic Books
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3rd Revised, Update Edition
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