The Power of the Buddhas (Harvard East Asian Monographs, #303) (Harvard East Asian Monographs (HUP))
by Sem Vermeersch
Buddhism in medieval Korea is characterized as "State Protection Buddhism," a religion whose primary purpose was to rally support (supernatural and popular) for and legitimate the state. In this view, the state used Buddhism to engender compliance with its goals. A closer look, however, reveals that Buddhism was a canvas on which people projected many religious and secular concerns and desires. This study is an attempt to specify Buddhism's place in Koryo and to ascertain to what extent and in w...
Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pressure, drew widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the threat now posed to regional and international security by the regime of North Korea's dear leader Kim Jong-Il. This book penetrates the veil surrounding the conflict on the Korean peninsula and North Korea's missile and nuclear programmes. It provides a thorough historical ana...
The Scythian Connection and the Shamanistic Crowns of Ancient Korea
by Shirley Fish
Rand's Scalable Warning and Resilience Model (Swarm)
by Bilyana Lilly, Adam S Moore, Quentin E Hodgson, and Daniel Weishoff
The First World War was a truely global event that changed the course of history in many participating as well as non-participating countries. In East Asia, the war stimulated the further rise of Japan as the leading power in the region during the war, yet also its radicalization and social protests after 1918. In China and Korea it stimulated nationalist eruptions, demanding freedom and equality for the (semi)colonized countries and the people living within their borders. All in all, the presen...
North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa
by Bruce E. Bechtol
North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades. Since Kim Jong-un assumed power, this threat has both increased and broadened. Since 2011, the small, isolated nation has detonated nuclear weapons multiple times, tested a wide variety of ballistic missiles, expanded naval and ground systems that threaten South Korea, and routinely employs hostile rhetoric. Another threat it poses has been less recognized: North Korea presents a potentially greater risk to American inter...
Crisis in North Korea (Hawai'i Studies on Korea)
by Professor of History Andrei Lankov
The War for Korea, 1945-1950 (Modern War Studies)
by Allan R. Millett
When the major powers sent troops to the Korean peninsula in June of 1950, it supposedly marked the start of one of the last century's bloodiest conflicts. Allan Millett, however, reveals that the Korean War actually began with partisan clashes two years earlier and had roots in the political history of Korea under Japanese rule, 1910-1945. The first in a new two-volume history of the Korean War, Millett's study offers the most comprehensive account of its causes and early military operations....
In just three decades, despite endemic political corruption, the continuous state of hostility with its northern neighbour, and the effects of years of foreign oppression, South Korea has achieved an economic miracle. The South Korean workforce, more disciplined and hard-working than the Japanese, is the key to the transformation, and is now becoming a model for other emergent Far-Eastern nations. But the economic success has been achieved at a cost. A rigid authoritarianism pervades all aspects...
The History of Korea, 2nd Edition (Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations)
by Djun Kil Kim
This revised edition examines North and South Korea's political, socio-economic, and cultural history from the Neolithic period to the early 21st century, including issues of recent political unrest and preparations for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Korea continues to be featured in the news, especially after the succession of Kim Jong-un as leader of North Korea and his threats of nuclear attack. Yet the reported instability of the North is contrasted by the rapid modernization revolution of the S...
Corea del Norte. La Historia del Conspicuo Reino Ermita o
by Charles River Editors
"Nothing to Envy" weaves together the stories of adversity and resilience of six residents of Chongin, North Korea's third largest city. Two lovers, who dated secretly for a decade, feared to criticise the regime to each other. A loyal factory worker watched her husband and son die of starvation before escaping the country. In telling the stories of Chongin's residents. she has recreated the lifestyles of North Korean citizens from their interests and concerns to their culture.
In February 1952, Army 1st Lieutenant Ben Malcom embarked on one of the untold stories of the Korean War - the special operations of the United Nations Partisan Infantry Korea (UNPIK). Operating from a clandestine camp on the island of Paengnyong, Malcom co-ordinated the intelligence activities of 11 partisan battalions, including one known as the White Tigers. With Ben Malcolm's experiences as its focus, this book examines all aspects of guerrilla activities in Korea. The story of small-unit op...
**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater...
TAEKWONDO from Korea's National Martial Art to Olympic Sport
by Len Losik Ph D