CONTENTS
List of Figures = ⅷ
List of Tables = ⅷ
Foreword by Tony Benn, MP = ⅸ
Preface = xi
Acknowledgements = xiii
Introduction = xv
PART Ⅰ NEW WORLD INSTABILITY
1 The Mounting Tensions = 3
New world Presumption = 3
Nuclear Proliferation = 6
The Crisis Chronology = 10
Towards Sanctions? = 28
The Wider World = 34
New World Calculations = 3g
The Crisis in Abeyance = 41
The Kim is Dead! Long Live the Kim! = 51
PART Ⅱ THE HISTORICAL FRAME
2 Beginnings = 63
The Land = 63
Origins = 64
Myth and Old Chao-hsien = 69
The Chinese Impact = 70
The Three Kingdoms Period = 77
The Growth of Koguryo = 77
The Rise of Paekche = 81
Silla : Prelude to Unification = 82
3 The Unified State = 88
The Silla Unification(7th-10th Century) = 89
The State of Koryo(918-1392) = 92
The Mongol Invasions(1231-1258) = 95
The Yi Dynasty(1392-1910) = 99
The Japanese Invasions(1592-1598) = 103
The Manchu Invasions(1627-1637) = 107
The Western Impact(17th-20th Century) = 109
Towards Annexation = 115
4 The Japanese Colony = 121
Annexation = 121
The Captive State = 126
The Independence struggle = 132
The March First Movement = 132
The Korean Provisional Government = 135
The Communist contribution = 139
The Racist Enterprise = 145
The Second World War = 149
PART Ⅲ THE FRUITS OF PARTITION
5 The Divided Nation = 155
Prelude to Partition = 155
Drawing the Line = 156
The Americans in Korea = 159
The Soviets in korea = 162
The Role of Syngman Rhee = 166
The Role of Kim Il-sung = 169
Developments in the South = 173
Developments in the North = 176
The Struggle for Unification = 181
6 The Korean War = 185
Prelude to War = 185
Who Started It? = 188
The Chronology of Conflict = 194
The Face of War = 194
The UN Role = 206
The Korean Paradigm = 212
7 The Aftermath = 216
The Aftermath of War = 216
The Political Chronology(ROK) = 218
The Political Chronology(DPRK) = 230
The Shape of Development = 236
The Route to Unification? = 243
Appendices
1 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons(1968) = 251
2 UN Security Councii Statement on IAEA Inspection issue, S/1994/PRST/13,31 March 1994 = 257
3 Agreement (24 July 1907) confirming Japanese Annexation of korea = 259
4 Programme, Statutes and Inaugural Declaration of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland(ARF) = 260
S Moscow Agreement (27 December 1945), extract relating to korea = 263
6 Security Council Resolutions 82, 83 and 84 (June-July 1950) authorising UN intervention in Korean civil war = 265
Notes = 268
Bibliography = 290
Index = 294