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. North Korea has experienced severe economic deterioration and increasing international isolation, while South Korea has undergone democratization and witnessed the emergence of a vibrant consumer culture. Paradoxically, this growing gap in ideologies and material standards has led to improved relations between the two countries. Why has this counterintuitive development occurred? Is North Korea really a threat, and if so, for whom? This book provides a substantive, accessible, and timely examination of the complex and compelling histories of the two Koreas. |
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... Soviet defector's rush over the MDL that resulted in four deaths. Before the Axe Murders, soldiers had been allowed to cross the MDL under limited terms but this practice was ceased. After the 1984 incident, the North Koreans began ...
... Soviet defector's rush over the MDL that resulted in four deaths. Before the Axe Murders, soldiers had been allowed to cross the MDL under limited terms but this practice was ceased. After the 1984 incident, the North Koreans began ...
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... Soviet bloc only strengthened North Korea's resolve to stay the course. Nevertheless, 1989 is not necessarily the year that stands out to most observers as the most prominent in the history of the two Koreas. In South Korea, the pros ...
... Soviet bloc only strengthened North Korea's resolve to stay the course. Nevertheless, 1989 is not necessarily the year that stands out to most observers as the most prominent in the history of the two Koreas. In South Korea, the pros ...
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... Soviet Union, large-scale famines, and economic malaise have forced experiments with profit incentives, markets, and new allocations of political power. If the South Korean government has been scurrying to keep up with accelerated ...
... Soviet Union, large-scale famines, and economic malaise have forced experiments with profit incentives, markets, and new allocations of political power. If the South Korean government has been scurrying to keep up with accelerated ...
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... Soviet advisors and equipment to the North, and a United Nations force, composed largely of US troops but also of soldiers from fifteen other member nations, to support the South. This contradictory phenomenon of apparently improved ...
... Soviet advisors and equipment to the North, and a United Nations force, composed largely of US troops but also of soldiers from fifteen other member nations, to support the South. This contradictory phenomenon of apparently improved ...
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... Soviet Union that Korea be put under a trusteeship composed of one representative each from the Soviet Union, the US, and China. The trusteeship, Roosevelt affirmed, would be in place for anywhere from twenty to fifty years before ...
... Soviet Union that Korea be put under a trusteeship composed of one representative each from the Soviet Union, the US, and China. The trusteeship, Roosevelt affirmed, would be in place for anywhere from twenty to fifty years before ...
Contents
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2 Altered States | 56 |
3 Holy Trinity | 91 |
4 Economic Tetralogies | 124 |
5 Decussation Effects? | 154 |
6 Conclusion | 172 |
Notes | 177 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 195 |
Index | 200 |
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