The Two Koreas by Don Oberdorfer

Author:Don Oberdorfer [Oberdorfer, Don; Carlin, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780465050888
Publisher: Basic Books

Justifying his action on the need for national unity to confront the North in talks, South Korean president Park Chung Hee declares martial law in October 1972 to crush all domestic opposition. PHOTO BY KIM IN KON/JOONG-ANG PHOTO

Presidents Park Chung Hee and Jimmy Carter review troops during Carter’s 1979 visit to Seoul. While cordial in public, the two presidents quarreled bitterly in private over the US troop withdrawal policy. JIMMY CARTER LIBRARY

Citizens of Kwangju parade through the streets in a popular uprising in May 1980 after brutal ROK special forces units temporarily withdraw. Many Koreans hold the United States partly to blame. PHOTO BY LEE CHANG SUNG /JOONG-ANG PHOTO

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