Korea category: 281 books
by Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Since the 1990s, the American government has under prioritized the North Korean threat to global security, according to Bruce Bechtol, an associate professor of political science at Angelo State University. Because North Korea appears economically weak and politically unstable, it is therefore often...
Beyond Death
The Politics of Suicide and Martyrdom in Korea
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Suicide and martyrdom are closely intertwined with Korean social and political processes. In this first book-length study of the evolving ideals of honorable death and martyrdom from the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1910) to contemporary South Korea, interdisciplinary essays explore the changing ways in...
Origins of the North Korean Garrison State
The People’s Army and the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book investigates the origins of the North Korean garrison state by examining the development of the Korean People’s Army and the legacies of the Korean War.
Despite its significance, there are very few books on the Korean People’s Army with North Korean primary sources being difficult...
In the Absence of Sun
A Korean American Woman's Promise to Reunite Three Lost Generations of Her Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
A breathtaking true story of a rescue mission undertaken by a young woman and her family in one of the most repressive countries in the world.
Helie Lee often had heard her grandmother speak of an uncle, lost decades ago when he was a child during the family’s daring escape from North Korea....
Everlasting Flower
A History of Korea
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2007
The defiant dictatorship of North Korea and the thriving democracy of South Korea may appear starkly different, but they share a complex and often misunderstood history that is ably recounted in Everlasting Flower.
Keith Pratttraverses the ancient landscapes of the Koreas, from the kingdoms of Old...
The Koreans
Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
The rise of South Korea is one of the most unexpected and inspirational developments of the latter part of our century. A few decades ago, the Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they came out of the fields and into Silicon Valley. In 1997, this powerhouse of a nation...
South Korea
The Enigmatic Peninsula
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2016
A Bill-Brysonesque romp through this often-overlooked travellers’ gem of East Asia.
For seventeen years, journalist, teacher, and coach Mark Dake has called South Korea home. Now, with his longtime Korean friend Heju, he sets out on a four-month, ten-thousand-kilometre road trip, determined...
Aim High in Creation!
A One-of-a-Kind Journey inside North Korea's Propaganda Machine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
An Authentic Glimpse of a North Korea We’ve Never Seen Before, by a Prize-Winning Filmmaker
Anna Broinowski is the only Westerner ever granted full access to North Korea’s propaganda machine, its film industry. Aim High in Creation! is her funny, surreal, insightful account of her twenty-one-day...
To the Diamond Mountains
A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This compelling and engaging book takes readers on a unique journey through China and North and South Korea. Tessa Morris-Suzuki travels from Harbin in the north to Busan in the south, and on to the mysterious Diamond Mountains, which lie at the heart of the Korean Peninsula's crisis. As she follows...
by Dr Stephen Turnbull
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Stephen Turnbull, a renowned expert on the history of Japan, examines the samurai invasion of Korea, the first step in an ambitious Japanese plan to conquer China. Examining the various stages of the war, from the pitched battles of the early war years, to the great naval encounters, the dramatic...
Act of War
Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
**WINNER OF THE SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON AWARD FOR NAVAL LITERATURE
“I devoured Act of War the way I did Flyboys, Flags of Our Fathers and Lost in Shangri-la.”—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author**
In 1968, the small, dilapidated American spy ship USS Pueblo set...
IN NORTH KOREA
Lives and Lies in the State of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017
North Koreans could change the world. Today their country can annihilate South Korea and Japan. By 2020 their aim is to have submarine-launched missiles able to nuke the US mainland. So who are the North Koreans? What do they think and feel? Are they belligerent automatons, indoctrinated by years of...
by H. Lee M. Pike
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
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Until very recently little has been known of the strange land in which the subject of this tale lives. Recent events have done much to introduce Korea and its people to the world at large. For this reason the story of Yung Pak's youthful days may be the...
EWA
Tragic Tale of Korea
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The aim of this book is to represent Korean affairs from the standpoint of the Korean. The writer has endeavored to look through Korean eyes at the acts of foreigners, in their attitude toward Korea, and search for their interpretation from the Korean standpoint; to illustrate the customs of the...