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Description edit
A new edition of the definitive overview of contemporary Korean history, updated with new material to account for recent, dramatic events. Don Oberdorfer has written a gripping narrative history of Korea's travails and triumphs over the past three decades. The Two Koreas places the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Kim Il Sung: Add a description of this character.
- Jimmy Carter
- Park Chung Hee
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Quinones
- Clinton
- Kim Jong Il
- Kim Young Sam
- Roh
- Kim Dae Jung
- Reagan
- Gallucci
- Shevardnadze
- Hwang
- Gleysteen
- Perry
- Blix
- Sneider
- Choi
- Lee Hu Rak
- Henry Kissinger
- Kang Sok
- Kim Yong Nam
- Kim Jong Ii
- Honecker
- Habib
- Dobrynin
- Wickham
- Kim Yong Sun
- Brzezinski
- Vance
- Brown
- Kanter
- Albright
- Harrison
- Hollingsworth
- Syngman Rhee
- Donald Gregg
- Lim
Setting & Locations edit
- North Koreans
- Pyongyang
- Seoul
- South Koreans
- United States
- Washington
- China
- Japan
- Moscow
- Beijing
- Soviet Union
- White House
- Yongbyon
- Kwangju
- Northeast Asia
- Geneva
- New York
- Panmunjom
- Tokyo
- Rangoon
- South Vietnam
- Taiwan
- Russia
- Berlin
- Hungary
- Vienna
- North-south
- U.s. Embassy
- Europe
- Middle East
- Kremlin
- Pusan
- Republic Of Korea
- Blue House
- Iraq
- San Francisco
- Burma
- Sino
- Iaea
- Saigon
- East Germany
- Kaesong
- Paris
- Taegu
First Sentence edit
A loft on dazzling white wings, the great cranes wheel in the sky and float down for a landing in a richly forested, unspoiled two-and-a-half-mile strip of land that stretches like a ribbon for 150 miles across the waist of the Korean peninsula.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Don Oberdorfer (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Perseus Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0201409275
Page Count: 496
Publisher: Perseus Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0201409275
Page Count: 496
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 951.904
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