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Bruce Cumings
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Pages: 256 (Paperback)
ISBN: 156584940X
Pub: The New Press
Pub date: 2004-11-30
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 80333
Reader Reviews:
An Excellent Read (1/1 people found this helpful)
This is an excellent little book that goes a long way to explaining the present siege mentality of the North Korean government and society. It meticulously charts the efforts of the Clinton administration to break the deadlock in US - Korean relations and to end the need for the North Koreans to construct missiles and nuclear weapons. The wrecking of this carefully constructed approach by G. W. Bush is described. The book goes on to chart the background of Kim Il Sung and the present leader Kim Jong Il in the most interesting terms and describes the country and the natural and other disasters that have set back its progress in the 1990s. The book ends with a discussion of the life values of Korean society and how these differ from the West and our (or American) ignorance of these important values. A stimulating read for anyone interested in modern politics and history.
Excellent appraisal of latent tensions in Asia (5/10 people found this helpful)
Professor Cumings' book is an excellent and unorthodox history of the Korean peninsula and its comparatively recent woes. It is refreshing to obtain a heretical view of this region and its problems. Asia is unstable enough as it is, but the huge populations of the east add magnitude to this fear of total war and conflict. Korea, China-Taiwan, China-Tibet, Indonesia, the Philippines, India-Pakistan, Vietnam-Cambodia, etc, are all part of this dynamic, and Cumings' book helps at least to give us the Korean component.
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