Dynamicsof the Korean State:From the Paleolithic Age to Candlelight DemocracyRobert E. BedeskiUniversity of Victoria, Canada
A survey on the postwar generation of Korea clearly reveals two facts. One is that the Korean War is becoming a "forgotten war" among Koreans, and the other is that the perception gaps regarding the issues of the war, homeland, national security, and unification among the generations are ...
1. Why was Korea originally divided on the 38th parallel? It followed several rivers and other geographical indicators, as is common procedure in such a case. It marked a point where the fighting between the Koreans in the civil war began. ...
Korea became the flashpoint of the Cold War when North Korea, with the backing of China and the Soviets, invaded the South. Within four days, the North Korean army had overrun the southern capital of Seoul and was moving rapidly southward. US troops were committed to the Puscan perimeter, ...
This included the Korean peninsula, which was divided at the 38th parallel between the zones of Soviet and American occupation. Unable to reach an agreement over a permanent government structure for Korea despite intervention from the United Nations, the Republic of Korea, also known as ...
North Koreaspacepowereveryday lifeIn the 1950s, the Soviet Union and other communist countries developed a unique method for allowing socialist ideology to manifest in urban spaces. The theory of the microdistrict was invented to establish self-contained urban units that included both housing and ...
foreign policy.As a major ally of the United States, Korea cherishes its security and economic ties with the United States and intends to develop these ties even in the post-cold war era. Most importantly, Korea takes pride in the common political and economic values it shares with the ...
EA Mcvadon - 《Korean Journal of Defense Analysis》 被引量: 4发表: 2010年 CHINA鈥揘ORTH KOREA RELATIONS IN THE POST-COLD WAR ERA AND NEW CHANGES IN 2009 In the late 1990s, China established 鈥渟trategic cooperative relations鈥with North Korea, which mixed elements of alliance and practical...
Notably, housing types imported from other socialist countries conflicted with the traditional Korean way of life and eventually went through an adaptive process. By the early 1960s, North Korean architects had arrived at new standard models that are still influential in North Korea's large cities....