| Korea, Are You at Peace?: Tales of Two Women Travelers in a Troubled Land Contributor(s): Simson, J. a. V. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1458210375 ISBN-13: 9781458210371 Publisher: Abbott Press OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Asia - Far East - History | Asia - Korea |
| Dewey: 951.9 |
| LCCN: 2013911480 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (0.99 lbs) 198 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - East Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Is there hope for peace on the Korean peninsula? These deeply personal stories of two Western women reveal the almost unimaginable transformation of Korea from a culturally and politically united peninsula at the end of the nineteenth century into today's dangerously divided land. These two women's experiences bracket the twentieth century, a dark time in Korean history, when the peninsula was occupied by Japan, divided into North and South, and wracked by internal war-becoming an unwilling pawn of Cold-War superpowers. Despite everything, South Korea has emerged as an international economic success story, whereas North Korea has become a totalitarian ideological nightmare in which leaders spew the rhetoric of aggression and develop nuclear weapons. What would it take to heal this political schizophrenia that endangers our entire world? |