Korea in the Cross Currents: A Century of Struggle and the Crisis of Reunification

by Robert J. Myers

Book Overview

The Korean peninsula underwent a continuous number of earth-shaking events in the twentieth century - although it is generally out of the earthquake zone. Jutting off the extreme northeast edge of the Eurasian landmass, and with a combined population of nearly seventy million people, North and South Korea are situated among China, Japan and Russia. They are also profoundly influenced by the United States because of the circumstances of the Korean...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312238150
• ISBN13: 9780312238155
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.6"