Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index.
Summary
Diplomatic expert Patrick McEachern unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the two Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format.
Contents
Introduction -- Origins and the Korean War -- Korea's hot war turns cold: Korea in the Cold War -- Post-Cold War -- Nuclear weapons and US-North Korea relations -- Korea-Japan relations -- US-South Korea relations in the twenty-first century -- Korean leadership in the twenty-first century -- Inter-Korean relations in the twenty-first century -- The economy -- Korean society: North and South -- North Korean human rights -- The future.