The Korean War Readiness Courses and An Air Power Recognition of the North and South Koreas after the Liberation

What is North Korea’s Songbun social classification system? After the Korean War, North Korea’s founder and leader Kim Il Sung aggressively moved to enhance his personal power at the top of the North Korean system. He continued to purge individuals and factions that...

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Mine Warfare of the North Korean People’s Navy and UN Navy during the Early State of the Korean War

The Journal of History and Practical Thought Studies ◽

10.31335/hpts.2020.08.72.393 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 72 ◽

pp. 393-432

Author(s):

Hui Seong Park

Keyword(s):

Korean War ◽

Early State ◽

The North ◽

The Korean War

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American Policy-making and the North Korean Aggression

World Politics ◽

10.2307/2009145 ◽

1955 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 209-232 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Alexander L. George

Keyword(s):

Policy Making ◽

Korean War ◽

Policy Makers ◽

American Experience ◽

The Past ◽

The North ◽

The Korean War ◽

American Policy ◽

Peripheral Areas ◽

And Behavior

The Korean War represented the first American experience with the problem of meeting local Communist aggression by means of limited, if costly, warfare. But despite the revulsion with that experience, and the “new look” at military strategy and foreign policy, it may not be the last. The character of recent weapons developments and the passing of our thermonuclear monopoly make it probable that in the future, as in the past, American policy-makers will be forced to consider the alternative of local conflict, with all its problems and risks, in determining how to respond to the threat or actuality of Communist moves in the peripheral areas.In these circumstances, analyses of American policy-making immediately before and during the Korean War may well illuminate the perspectives and considerations relevant to this difficult and dangerous type of operation. Here, no more can be done than toexamine the effect of strategic planning and estimates of Communist intentions and behavior on the decision to commit American forces to the defense of South Korea. This decision, and even the crucial decision to commit ground forces to eventual offensive operations against the aggressor, was made within afew days of the North Korean attack. Attention, accordingly, is focused on American policy reactions to the war in the first week or ten days following June 25, 1950.

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Korean War and the International Relations (Focusing on the Origins of the War as related to U.S. and Soviet Union`s Foreign Policy)

Korean Journal of Policy Studies ◽

10.52372/kjps09010 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 9 (0) ◽

pp. 153-169

Author(s):

Myong Sang Choe

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Soviet Union ◽

International Relations ◽

Korean War ◽

Kim Il Sung ◽

The North ◽

Lasting Peace ◽

The Korean War ◽

Intimate Knowledge ◽

Korean College Students

I believe the most important patriotic duty of Korean is to continue lasting peace in Korea and reunify the Korean peninsula while promoting growth and prosperity. Although it has been almost fifty years since the outbreak of the Korean War, we have yet to accurately examined the origins of the war. With the recent death of Kim, Il-Sung, who might have had an intimate knowledge of the facts, the effort to uncover truth of the origins of the Korean War seem even more distant. With the truth behind veils, some Korean college students still have believed the North Korean view that the Korean War was a war of national liberation and the unification of the fatherland. These students even proclaim that the South initiated the war.

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Communist Parties Come to Power in Korea and Vietnam

The Rise and Demise of World Communism ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197579671.003.0020 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 135-142

Author(s):

George W. Breslauer

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

South Korea ◽

Communist Party ◽

Korean War ◽

World War ◽

The North ◽

Guerrilla War ◽

Northern Half ◽

The Korean War ◽

The Status

In Korea, the USSR occupied the northern half of the country after Japan withdrew its occupation forces. The Soviets installed a regime of North Korean communists who enjoyed popular support due to their sacrifices in fighting the Japanese during World War II. The leadership convinced Moscow and Beijing to sanction and support an invasion of South Korea that they hoped would reunify the country. This led to the Korean War, which merely restored the status quo ante at the expense of millions of lives. The pathway was different in Vietnam, where a guerrilla war against Japanese, then French, occupation led to the victory of the Vietnamese communist party in the North.

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Can We Live as One Family? Rethinking the Two Koreas' Kinship in John Hoon's Kang Tek-koo

Theatre Research International ◽

10.1017/s0307883304000677 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 267-283

Author(s):

SUK-YOUNG KIM

Keyword(s):

Fluid Dynamics ◽

Soviet Union ◽

Korean War ◽

The Other ◽

Common Language ◽

South Korean ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

The Family ◽

The Korean War ◽

North And South

John Hoon's play, Kang Tek-koo, tells the story of the unexpected encounter between two half-brothers, one South Korean and the other North Korean, in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In the play, the conventional tragic scene of the reunion of the family members separated by the Korean War is dealt with in a resilient comic spirit from the perspective of a younger generation of South Koreans. This article examines the production of Kang Tek-koo by the South Korean company Apple Theatre, which took place in 2001 – a time when the fluid dynamics of globalization were encompassing Korea, and the transnational flow of media, people, and ideology opened up the possibility for North and South Koreans to interact and search for a common language, culture, home and nationhood.

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