Korea at War: Conflicts That Shaped the World - Paperback

An engaging history covering a century of conflict on the Korean Peninsula

• The brutal years of Japanese colonial rule which began with Japan's annexation of Korea and ended with its defeat in World War II--and which still dominate Japanese-Korean relations today
• The division of the country into a totalitarian North and a prosperous, democratic South
• North Korea's invasion of the South, motivated by Stalin, which led to the bloody Korean War--a conflict that is still not settled to this day
• The irascible General Douglas MacArthur, who was relieved of his command by President Truman when he disobeyed a direct order and attempted to expand the war into China
• The rise of the Kim regime in North Korea and the continuing threat of nuclear war today