Korea in the Cross Currents: A Century of Struggle and the Crisis of Reunification

by Robert J. Myers

Book Overview

The Korean peninsula underwent a continuous number of earth-shaking events in the 20th century. North and South Korea are situated among China, Japan, and Russia; they are also profoundly influenced by the United States because of the circumstances of the Korean War (1950-1953). Issues of war and peace, left over from the Korean war, remain unresolved; two separate states are the residue of the Cold War. This anomaly still poses ominous prospects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312238150
• ISBN13: 9780312238155
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.6"