Prospects for Reunification of North and South Korea

Abstract

There is no doubt that the Korean Peninsula today remains one of the most dangerous spots in the world. Ever since the Korean war ended in 1953, the danger of renewed hostilities between South and North Korea has been a dominant factor in the policies of the two Koreas as well as in the policies of the super powers. The hardening of the division was a product of the Cold War and unending competition between the United States and the Soviet Union. The question of national reunification must be viewed from the perspectives of inter-Korean relations and opposite ideological orientation, and the alliance relations which come from these ideologies. Super power patrons have added great complexity to resolving Korean problems. This research is divided into four parts: (1) division of Korea in historical perspectives; (2) United States and Soviet Union policies and what kind of policies they pursue with regard to the two Koreas; (3) a comparison of South and North Korean reunification policies; and (4) future prospects.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA217870

Entities

People

  • Jin H. Lee

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Asia
  • Cold War
  • Economic Systems
  • Far East
  • Governments
  • Korean War
  • National Security
  • North Korea
  • Political Systems
  • Second World War
  • South Korea
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Ussr
  • War Colleges

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Educational Psychology
  • International Relations, focusing on Korea-Africa and North Korea-South Korea relations, and Nigeria-Latin American Relations.