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Global Security Watch-Korea - A Reference Handbook (Hardcover)
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Global Security Watch-Korea - A Reference Handbook (Hardcover)
Series: Praeger Security International
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In July 1993, President Bill Clinton visited the Republic of Korea
as part of a tour in Northeast Asia. Looking across the
Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea, President
Clinton described the terrain he saw as one of the scariest places
on earth. Now, well into the first decade of the 21st century and
several years after the end of the Cold War, President Clinton's
observation remains accurate. In fact, the argument can be made
that the Korean peninsula is even more dangerous than it was in
1993. How did this happen when, throughout most of its more than
2,000 year history, Korea was one of the most homogeneous countries
among the world's nation states, with its people sharing a common
language and ethnicity? Since the end of World War II and primarily
through the actions of external powers, the Korean peninsula has
been divided-with North and South Korea engaged in a competition
for the heart and soul of the Korean nation and international
legitimacy. Some experts have referred to the peninsula as one of
the last vestiges of the Cold War. Global Security Watch-Korea
compares the ways in which the two Koreas have developed their
respective political and economic systems over the past 50 years,
as well as the competition between them. The focus then shifts to
the North Korean nuclear weapons program and an examination of some
of the reasons North Korea has been willing to expend economic and
political resources to build this program. Berry analyzes the
challenge to peace and stability represented by a nuclear-armed
North Korea and the only marginally successful efforts of the
United States and other countries to convince North Korea to
terminate this program, aneffort complicated by policy differences
between the United States and South Korea regarding the Pyongyang
regime. The handbook concludes with predictions of possible
outcomes in this volatile area.
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