Reassessing the Park Chung Hee Era, 1961-1979 by Kim Hyung-A; Sorensen Clark W.;

Author:Kim, Hyung-A; Sorensen, Clark W.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Washington Press

ROK/U.S. RELATIONS AND DEMOCRACY

One unresolved problem remains, however. Nationalism has been a powerful phenomenon in the twentieth century, and yet South Korea remains heavily dependent on the United States for military defense, trade, and emergency support in time of economic crisis. Dependency on a foreign power (China) under the tributary system was one of the powerful legacies of the Confucian past. South Korea has gained security at the sacrifice of national sovereignty, but a radical assertion of sovereignty might make the country vulnerable. U.S. sanctions against North Korea could lead to a war that would destroy both democracy and millions of lives, or a U.S. pullout that would also threaten both security and the democratic process. Either of those possibilities could pose a greater threat to South Korean democracy than internal defects in its democratic system.

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