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North Korea - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
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North Korea - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Hardcover)
Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
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After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president
and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear
and missile development programs, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
declared mission accomplished in November 2017. Though Kim's
pronouncement appears premature, North Korea is on the verge of
being able to strike the United States with nuclear weapons. South
Korea has long been in the North Korean crosshairs but worries
whether the United States would defend it if North Korea holds the
American homeland at risk. The largely ceremonial summit between US
president Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, and the unpredictability of
both parties, has not quelled these concerns and leaves more
questions than answers for the two sides' negotiators to work out.
The Korean Peninsula's security situation is an intractable
conflict, raising the question, "How did we get here?" In this
book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the US
embassy in Seoul Patrick McEachern unpacks the contentious and
tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable
question-and-answer format. While North Korea is famous for its
militarism and nuclear program, South Korea is best known for its
economic miracle, familiar to consumers as the producer of Samsung
smartphones, Hyundai cars, and even K-pop music and K-beauty. Why
have the two Koreas developed politically and economically in such
radically different ways? What are the origins of a divided Korean
Peninsula? Who rules the two Koreas? How have three generations of
the authoritarian Kim dictatorship shaped North Korea? What is the
history of North-South relations? Why does the North Korean
government develop nuclear weapons? How do powers such as Japan,
China, and Russia fit into the mix? What is it like to live in
North and South Korea? This book tackles these broad topics and
many more to explain what everyone needs to know about South and
North Korea.
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