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The unfinished war : Korea /

Are we heading for a new Korean War? Lee presents the history, the current situation, and US involvement, drawing on 25 years in the US and Asia with the Ford Foundation, the UN and the Asian Development Bank, using recently de-classified documents and personal accounts from North and South Koreans.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Bong
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Algora Pub., ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists
  • The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II
  • The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance
  • Americans in South Korea
  • North Koreans discover communism
  • Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan
  • Prelude to a hot war
  • On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington
  • The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around
  • An ugly war
  • The first hundred days
  • Mao's thought in Beijing
  • The Inchon landing and its aftermath
  • Chinese traps
  • A brand new ball game
  • Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians
  • An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in
  • The way we survived the war
  • A talking war
  • The tortuous path to armistice agreement
  • South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls
  • North Korea now
  • Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.