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Oberdorfer first toured Korea in 1953 courtesy of the U.S. Army and returned often on the Asia beat for the Washington Post. In the present volume, his accounts of the conflicts of the last 20 years, appraisals of leaders based on interviews in Korea, Japan, Washington, and Moscow, and incisive policy analysis form a detailed and insightful history of North and South Korean politics and U.S. policy. Particularly engrossing is the analysis of relations between Moscow and Washington and their defiant clients, which turned domestic rifts into world conflict from the 1950s through the potentially nuclear crisis of 1994 and the present famine. The obvious comparison is with Bruce Cumings's commanding Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (LJ 2/15/97). Cumings analyzes the evolution and nature of Korea's political economy over the last few centuries. Oberdorfer brings to life the events, leaders, and decisions of the last 20 years. Larger public and academic collections will want both volumes.?Charles Hayford, Evanston, Ill.
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The New York Times Book Review, Arnold R. Isaacs
In The Two Koreas, Oberdorfer has drawn on extensive interviews, his own past reporting and a careful search of documentary material that has become available in South Korea and elsewhere--including records opened up by the post-Communist governments in Russia and East Germany. From this material he constructs a lucid, balanced, thoroughly credible account of the last 25 years on both sides of the armistice line ... --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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