A Troubled Peace: U.S. Policy and the Two Koreas

by Chae-Jin Lee

Book Overview

In A Troubled Peace, Professor Chae-Jin Lee reviews the vicissitudes of U.S. policy toward South and North Korea since 1948 when rival regimes were installed on the Korean peninsula. He explains the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801883318
• ISBN13: 9780801883316
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A comprehensive military, social and political analysis

Any collection which includes details on Korean history will find essential to the fold the addition of A TROUBLED PEACE: U.S. POLICY AND THE TWO KOREAS. Lee reviews the history of U.S. policies towards both North and South Korea since 1948, explaining the changing nature of such relations, changing U.S. goals for the divided Koreas, and analyzing a blend of diplomatic documents, primary materials in English and various Asian languages, and adding interviews with both American and Korean officials. A comprehensive military, social and political analysis emerges with wide-ranging implications for future relationships within and between the nations. Diane C. Donovan, Editor California Bookwatch