title: Korea and its Futures: Unification and the Unfinished War
author: Roy Grinker
description: In a provocative sociocultural study, Grinker (anthropology and international affairs, George Washington Univ.) unmasks traditional rhetoric, demonstrating that South Korea's "sacred" unification goal is clouded by a Korean homogeneity myth and met today with apprehension. Ostensibly desired, unification is risky, threatening South Koreans' known world. To them, unification means conquest, not acceptance of North Korea's impoverished and less modern culture. Divergent cultures, divided families, cultural symbols, and post-Cold War German unification are related issues all deftly explored by Grinker. This significant work on the "unfinished" war joins Bruce Cummings's Korea's Place in the Sun (LJ 2/15/97) to illuminate readers' understanding of today's Korea. Highly recommended for academic libraries.AMargaret W. Norton, IMH H.S., Westchester, IL<br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: UNIFICATION BLUE BOOK 2020
  A Peninsula of Paradoxes: 
  South Korean Public  
  Opinion on Unification  
  and Outside Powers
  Chung Min Lee
  KOREAN SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVE
  
  A Peninsula of Paradoxes: 
  South Korean Public  
  Opinion on Unification  
  and Outside Powers
  Chung Min Lee
  UNIFICATION BLUE BOOK 2020
  KOREAN SECURITY AND FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVE
  
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