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Preparing for Korea's reunification
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- Issue Date
- 1995
- Citation
- Korean Journal of Policy Studies, Vol.10, pp. 127-153
- Abstract
- Although the democratic revolution of 1989 in Eastern Europe was closely watched
all around the world, it left a particularly strong impression on the people of the
Republic of Korea (ROK, or South Korea). After watching Germans hammer away at
the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, South Koreans came to believe that Korea's own
reunification had to be just around the comer-- given the collapse of communism
worldwide and increasing economic troubles under the oppressive regime of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea). When Rumania's
Nicolae Ceaucescu, who had sometimes been compared to North Korea's Kim Il Sung,
was put to death by angry demonstrators, South Koreans became even more confident
that unification would come in the near future- be it through transformation or
collapse of the communist system in North Korea.
- ISSN
- 1225-5017
- Language
- English
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