Korea: The Search for Sovereignty

by Geoff L. Simons

Book Overview

A broad history of Korea, with a particular focus on key twentieth-century events. Particular attention is given to the dispute over North Korea's controversial nuclear development programme. This issue is profiled in the context of the post-Soviet world, and against such crucial modern events as the Japanese colonization of the Korean peninsula, the US partition, the resulting Korean War, and the subsequent development of North and South. The detailed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349239526
• ISBN13: 9781349239528
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent piece of work.

Unlike some other books about Korea, this book gives an objective account of Korea's political troubles. Much of its content is about recent Korean history. There are lots of discussion regarding N. Korea atomic developments and its consequences to the rest of the world. The author made a great effort to explain the truth and shows that people should not be blind to accept media's biased reportings.

Great book

This book is an excellent source of information about the reality of the Korean problem. The author explains the difficulties Korea has gone through since ancient times, primarily focusing on recent history. Chapter 1 offers perspective and history of N. Korea's nuclear ambitions. Chapter 2 and 3 describes history from ancient to annexation by Japan. Chapter 4 explains Korea under Japanese rule. Chapter 5 explains the origins of the division of the peninsula, Chapter 6 deals with Korean War and Chapter 7 explains the aftermath of the war. Strongly recommended!

Refreshingly objective and anti-mass media

The author, Geoff Simons took pains to do his research, to understand the history and the context of the Korean struggle from a non-Western, non-imperialist perspective. In a world that blindly accepts what's printed on NY Times as objective truth, people have already closed their minds to anything that contradicts mainstream popular media's view as biased or even false. The content in the book needs to be told for people to take their blinders off on the Korean situation, and for a change, understand it with sound historical anaylysis. The book is an excellent resource for college/graduate research on recent Korean history and hypocritical US foreign policy.