This reissue of Paul Frenchs acclaimed introduction to North Korea provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the politics, economics and history of the DPRK, with added chapters dealing with recent events. A new foreword examines why North Korea remains an issue in world politics and argues that an understanding of the country is more important now than ever. A new in-depth postscript offers ana…
Following its liberation from Japanese colonialism, at the end of WWII, Korea was divided into two separate nations. Because the Korean nation enjoyed a long dynastic history, its postwar partition was particularly traumatic. The ensuing Cold War years spawned the Korean War and subsequent decades of strained inter-Korean relations and tensions in the region surrounding the peninsula. This volu…
The contens of this book: PART I Existing Security Dilemmas in Korea 1. The Emergence of Antagonistic Identities 2. The Persistence of Cold War Antagonisms 3. The Geopolitical Production of Danger PART II Alternative Security Arrangements for Korea 4. Toward an Ethics of Dialogue 5. Dilemmas of Engagement 6. Toward an Ethics of Difference