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Summary:
- North Korea and the United States have been officially at war for over 70 years, one of the longest lasting and most unbalanced conflicts in world history, in which a small East Asian state has held its own against a Western superpower for over three generations. With the Western world increasingly pivoting its attention towards Northeast Asia, and the region likely to play a more central role in the global economy, North Koreáђةs importance as a strategically located country, potential economic powerhouse and major opponent of Western regional hegemony will only grow over the coming decades. This work is the first fully comprehensive study of the ongoing war between the two parties, and covers the history of the conflict from the first American clashes with Koreáђةs nationalist movement in 1945 and imposition of its military rule over southern Korea to North Koreáђةs nuclear deterrence program and ongoing tensions with the U.S. today. The nature of the antagonism between the two states, one profoundly influenced by both decolonisation and wartime memory, and the other uncompromising in its attempts to globally impose its leadership and ideology, is covered in detail. Northern Korea is one of very few inhabited parts of the world never to have been placed under Western rule, and its fiercely nationalist identity as a deeply Confucian civilization state has made it considerably more difficult to tackle than almost any other American adversary. This work elucidates the conflicting ideologies and the discordant designs for the Korean nation which have fueled the war, and explores emerging fields of conflict which have become increasingly central in recent years such as economic and information warfare. Prevailing trends in the conflict and its global implications, including the multiple wars that have been waged by proxy, are also examined in detail. An in-depth assessment of the past provides context key to understanding the future trajectories this relationship could take, and how a continuing shift in global order away from Western unipolarity is likely to influence its future.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. One Korean War
- Ch. 1 Beginning
- Ch. 2 Strategic Implications of the Korean War's Outbreak
- Ch. 3 Korean War
- Ch. 4 Battlefield Moves to North Korea
- -And China
- Ch. 5 Absolute Destruction: The Ravaging of North Korea
- Ch. 6 As if All Koreans Were the Enemy: American Wartime Conduct Towards South Korean Civilians
- Ch. 7 Indelible Impression: Western Conduct Towards North Korean Civilians and Prisoners of War
- Ch. 8 Ending the War: Maximum Pressure and a Hard Lesson on American Power
- pt. Two Cold War Years
- Ch. 9 War in Peacetime: Ongoing Conflict After the Korean War Armistice
- Ch. 10 Proxy Wars: How North Korea and America Wage War Through Third Parties
- Ch. 11 U.S. Military in South Korea
- pt. Three State Survival in the Unipolar Era
- Ch. 12 1990s: An Arduous March and a New World Order
- Ch. 13 21st Century and Renewed "Maximum Pressure"
- Ch. 14 Introducing Mutual Vulnerability: Implications of North Korea Attaining a Nuclear-Tipped ICBM
- Ch. 15 2017
- -Donald Trump and the Brink of Crisis
- Ch. 16 North Korea Wins?
- Ch. 17 Art of the Deal
- pt. Four New Battlefronts and the Evolving Nature of Conflict
- Ch. 18 Clash of Ideologies: The Resilience of North Korea
- Ch. 19 Information War: The Final Frontier
- Ch. 20 Economic Warfare
- Appendix I Kim Jong Nam Assassination
- Appendix II Death of an American Student
- Appendix III Storming the North Korean Embassy.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
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ISBNs:
- 9781949762310 (electronic bk.)
1949762319 (electronic bk.)
1949762300 [Invalid]
9781949762303 [Invalid]
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OCLC Numbers:
- 1269383554
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Other Control Numbers:
- 2637734 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp301580344