Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989North Korea and South Korea are never far from the news headlines - one for the alleged danger it poses to the world, the other for its apparent capitalist success story. In Bipolar Orders, Hyung Gu Lynn analyzes the processes driving both countries since the 1980s. |
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... Kwangju Massacre or the May 18 Uprising . The government count acknowledged nearly 200 dead , but many estimates put the final death toll at somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 . It seems clear that many of the demonstrators in Kwangju ...
... Kwangju Massacre severely damaged the Chun government from its very inception . While Park had taken power in a bloodless coup , Chun had done so through the massacre of citizens . The memories of the massacre also provided powerful ...
... Kwangju Massacre , and structural changes including demographic shifts . The residues of resentment and distrust over what exactly US officials knew or did ( or did not ) do during the Kwangju Massacre of 1980 propelled the rise of ...
Contents
Consolidation | 23 |
Economic and Social Change | 56 |
North Korean Politics after 1989 | 91 |
Copyright | |
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