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Inter-Korean Relations: Problems and Prospects
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Description for Inter-Korean Relations: Problems and Prospects
Hardcover. Editor(s): Kim, Samuel S. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 1FPKS; GTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
In post-cold War thinking, North Korea was expected to collapse and be absorbed into a single Korean state by the democratic regime in South Korea. Fifteen years later, this has not happened, and June 2000 saw a summit making the warmest inter-Korean relations yet. Over that time period, the two Korean states found instead new mechanisms and methods for interacting with each other on the level of de facto if not yet completely de jure sovereign states and have begun to overcome some of the shadows cast by the partition and violent war that befell the peninsula following World War ... Read more
In post-cold War thinking, North Korea was expected to collapse and be absorbed into a single Korean state by the democratic regime in South Korea. Fifteen years later, this has not happened, and June 2000 saw a summit making the warmest inter-Korean relations yet. Over that time period, the two Korean states found instead new mechanisms and methods for interacting with each other on the level of de facto if not yet completely de jure sovereign states and have begun to overcome some of the shadows cast by the partition and violent war that befell the peninsula following World War ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
225
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403964779
SKU
V9781403964779
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99-15
About N/A
SAMUEL KIM is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the East Asia Institute, Columbia University, USA. He is author or editor of 17 books, including The North Korean System in the Post-Cold War Era.
Reviews for Inter-Korean Relations: Problems and Prospects
"Korea could reunify when enough confidence is built between national and international elites to allow the union. This book is the best-documented treatment of such a possibility - and of its alternatives, most of which would sooner or later involve the U.S. and the city of Seoul in an unnecessary war. Everyone who is interested in East Asia or in ... Read more