The Korea Knot: A Military-Political History

Beginning with a brief account of the troubled historical past of this small country that had long known invasion and the threat of invasion, Carl Berger sets the stage for Korea's catastrophic hour resulting from World War II—the division of a once-united nation into two separate countries. It is this division, he maintains, that holds the key to the Korean tragedy.

The book ranges from the Cairo Pledge to the present, examining the shifts in international diplomacy, Russia's change in atti...