Divided Korea – Toward a Culture of Reconciliation Bleiker Paperback

Divided KoreaToward a Culture of Reconciliation\nAuthor(s): Roland Bleiker\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9780816645572, 978-0816645572\nSynopsis\nIn 2002, North Korea precipitated a major international crisis when it revealed the existence of a secret nuclear weapons program and announced its withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Earlier in the year, George W. Bush had declared North Korea part of the axis of evil, and soon afterward his administration listed the country as a potential target of a preemptive nuclear strike. Pyongyangs angry reaction ensured the complete deterioration of relations on the Korean peninsula, where only two years before the leaders of North and South Korea had come together in a historic summit meeting.\n\nFew international conflicts are as volatile, protracted, or seemingly insoluble as the one in Korea, where mutual mistrust, hostile Cold War a.