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Tarki-Young Hamm's book is a critical inquiry into the dynamics of
the armament of North and South Korea from the Korean War period to
the 1990s. The author's findings reveal that North Korean military
superiority is a myth, used by South Korean governments to
legitimize military expenditure. Moreover, defence spending has
been used to consolidate authoritarian regimes and mobilize popular
support. This analysis describes and explains the armament
processes of the two Korean states from a more objective, critical
perspective. Hamm considers defence expenditure as the best
indicator of armament, rather than bean counts or firepower scores.
Finding most offical sources unstable, inconsistent or biased, this
book seeks to generate more valid, credible data; and it
re-estimates the North Korean defence budget, taking foreign aid
and depreciation into account. From this material, the author
argues that, contrary to popular opinion, the South has been
superior in military capital since the mid-1980s. "Arming the Two
Koreas" provides a holistic, rather than reductionist, explanation
of armament. Following the Grasmscian conception of state power as
the sum of coercion and hegemony/consent
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