The Koreas : the birth of two nations divided /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yoo, Theodore Jun, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : land of exile
  • Out of the ashes of war
  • Dependent capitalist development or a path of self-reliance?
  • Sex, hair, and flower power
  • The long 1980s
  • Civilian rule and the end of a dynasty
  • "Kim-chic" or "Axis of Evil?" : Korea and the world
  • Korea in the world
  • Epilogue : land of morning calm.