Arming The Two Koreas
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Author | : Taik-Young Hamm |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134620667 |
North Korea has traditionally been seen as militarily superior to South Korea in the long feud between the two nations. This brilliantly argued book taps into a great deal of news interest in North Korea at the moment in the wake of recent hostility against Japan. Hamm controversially shows that the received idea of Koreas military strength is partly a myth created by South Korea to justify a huge programme of rearmament.
Author | : Stijn Mitzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781910777145 |
This book seeks to bring order and coherence to the chaotic state of affairs in the intelligence community of North Korea-watchers, as well as to disprove the much-echoed stance that there is little to fear from the DPRK by providing information on a plethora of never-before described weapons systems and modernization programs.
Author | : Andrew Scobell |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 51 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1428910255 |
Author | : Benjamin R. Young |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1503627640 |
Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era. With one foot in the socialist Second World and the other in the anticolonial Third World, North Korea occupied a unique position as both a postcolonial nation and a Soviet client state, and sent advisors to assist African liberation movements, trained anti-imperialist guerilla fighters, and completed building projects in developing countries. State-run media coverage of events in the Third World shaped the worldview of many North Koreans and helped them imagine a unified anti-imperialist front that stretched from the boulevards of Pyongyang to the streets of the Gaza Strip and the beaches of Cuba. This book tells the story of North Korea's transformation in the Third World from model developmental state to reckless terrorist nation, and how Pyongyang's actions, both in the Third World and on the Korean peninsula, ultimately backfired against the Kim family regime's foreign policy goals. Based on multinational and multi-archival research, this book examines the intersection of North Korea's domestic and foreign policies and the ways in which North Korea's developmental model appealed to the decolonizing world.
Author | : John Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Morton Abramowitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tong Hyong Park |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Arms control |
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Author | : Wayne Thompson |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 1997-07 |
Genre | : Korean War, 1950-1953 |
ISBN | : 0788140094 |
Despite American success in preventing the conquest of South Korea by communist North Korea, the Korean War of 1950-1953 did not satisfy Americans who expected the kind of total victory they had experienced in WW II. In Korea, the U.S. limited itself to conventional weapons. Even after communist China entered the war, Americans put China off-limits to conventional bombing as well as nuclear bombing. Operating within these limits, the U.S. Air Force helped to repel 2 invasions of South Korea while securing control of the skies so decisively that other U.N. forces could fight without fear of air attack.
Author | : Andrew Scobell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9781584871552 |
At first, it might not seem surprising to have a formal military alliance that has endured more than 4 decades between two communist neighbors, China and North Korea. After all, their armed forces fought shoulder-to-shoulder in the Korean War 50 years ago. However, Beijing's ties to Pyongyang have weakened considerably over time, and China now has much better and stronger relations with the free market democracy of South Korea than it does with the totalitarian, centrally planned economy of North Korea. In many ways Pyongyang has become a Cold War relic, strategic liability, and monumental headache for Beijing. Nevertheless, the China-North Korea alliance remains formally in effect, and Beijing continues to provide vital supplies of food and fuel to the brutal and repressive Pyongyang regime. Since the ongoing nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, which emerged in October 2002, the United States and other countries have pinned high hopes on Chinese efforts to moderate and reason with North Korea. Beijing's initiative to bring Pyongyang to the table in the so-called Six-Party Talks and host them seems to substantiate these hopes. Yet, as the author points out, it would be unrealistic to raise one's expectations over what China might accomplish vis-à-vis North Korea. Beijing plays a useful and important role on the Korean Peninsula, but in the final analysis, the author argues that there are significant limitations on China's influence both in terms of what actions Beijing would be prepared to take and what impact this pressure can have. If this analysis is correct, then North Korea is unlikely to mend its ways anytime soon.
Author | : Andrei Lankov |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199390037 |
In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state. Based on vast expertise, this book reveals how average North Koreans live, how their leaders rule, and how both survive