The unfinished war Korea /

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Main Author: Lee, Bong
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Algora Pub., c2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists
  • The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II
  • The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance
  • Americans in South Korea
  • North Koreans discover communism
  • Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan
  • Prelude to a hot war
  • On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington
  • The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around
  • An ugly war
  • The first hundred days
  • Mao's thought in Beijing
  • The Inchon landing and its aftermath
  • Chinese traps
  • A brand new ball game
  • Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians
  • An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in
  • The way we survived the war
  • A talking war
  • The tortuous path to armistice agreement
  • South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls
  • North Korea now
  • Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.