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PAM 550-81 North Korea A Country Study, 5th Edition

DA PAM 550-81 North Korea: A Country Study . 2008 ISBN 978-0-8444-1188-0 Contents Foreword iii Acknowledgments v Preface xiii Table A. Chronology of Important Events xv Table B. Metric Conversion Coefficients and Factors xix Country Profile xxi Introduction xxix Chapter 1. Historical Setting 1 Bruce Cumings THE ORIGINS OF THE KOREAN NATION 4 THE THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD 6 Paekche 6 Koguryo 7 Silla 9 Korea under Silla 11 UNIFICATION BY KORYO 12 THE CHOSON DYNASTY 16 Florescence 16 Dynastic Decline 21 KOREA IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY WORLD ORDER 24 JAPANESE COLONIALISM, 1910-45 29 THE RISE OF KOREAN NATIONALISM AND COMMUNISM 32 NATIONAL DIVISION IN THE 1940s 37 Tensions in the 1940s 37 U.S. and Soviet Occupations 39 The Arrival of Kim II Sung 40 The Establishment of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 42 THE KOREAN WAR, 1950-53 43 THE POSTWAR PERIOD 45 The Economy 45 Corporatism and the Chuch'e Idea 49 International Relations 54 NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 57 Chapter 2. The Society and Its Environment 59 Helen-Louise Hunter THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT 61 Topography and Drainage 63 Climate 64 Environmental Factors 65 POPULATION 67 SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND VALUES 70 Cr

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