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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454996603321

Autore

Hamm Taik-young <1950->

Titolo

Arming the two Koreas [[electronic resource] ] : state, capital, and military power / / Taik-young Hamm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999

ISBN

1-134-62066-7

1-280-33355-3

9786610333554

0-203-02271-8

0-203-16967-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Politics in Asia series

Disciplina

355/.0330519

Soggetti

Arms race - Korea

Electronic books.

Korea (North) Defenses

Korea (South) Defenses

Korea (North) Armed Forces Appropriations and expenditures

Korea (South) Armed Forces Appropriations and expenditures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-237) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents

Sommario/riassunto

North Korea has traditionally been seen as militarily superior to South Korea in the long feud between the two nations. This brilliantly argued book taps into a great deal of news interest in North Korea at the moment in the wake of recent hostility against Japan. Hamm controversially shows that the received idea of Koreas military strength is partly a myth created by South Korea to justify a huge programme of rearmament.