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D EALING WITH North Korea is perhaps one of the most difficult security challenges in global politics today. 1 Totalitarian and reclusive, ideologically isolated and economically ruined, it is the inherent ‘other’ in a globalized and neo-liberal world order. And yet, North Korea keeps surviving, not least because its leaders periodically rely
American voluntary agencies and the“aid rush” to Korea 1 In a [… free] society, voluntary agencies are a healthy component providing faith, devotion, know-how and leadership in dealing with the mental, physical and spiritual needs of man. 2
account in the formation of US strategy for the Cold War, which called for the tripling of the US defense budget, signed by Truman after the outbreak of the Korean War. 36 Despite Truman’s directive to supply Israel with defensive arms, the operative decision remained the domain of the Pentagon and the State Department, both of which regarded Israel as aggressive and more powerful than the Arab countries. 37 The most that the
Korean War, the Kremlin designated Israel as a hostile state identifying entirely with the West. 43 The Korean War brought a sharp decline in Israeli–Soviet relations. The Israeli government voted in favor of the Security Council decision to send military forces to fight North Korea, in practice abandoning its Cold War tactic of non-alignment. 44 Ben-Gurion shrugged off the
’s leaders consciously forged alliances with US agricultural producers, the US government, other NGOs, and political leaders all over the world. They thereby turned CARE into a major advocate for the use and distribution of American agricultural products in the Global South. As a food relief agency, CARE was present during the wars in Korea and Vietnam, at the Suez crisis in Egypt, in Colombia and Nicaragua
, but was opposed to its Zionist ideology. Since mass immigration was at the top of Israel’s agenda, it was unlikely that Israel could maintain correct diplomatic relations with the Soviets because immigration would undermine the image of the Soviet Union’s multinational structure. In addition, Israel had openly supported the United States during the Korean War, shattering its pretense of non
Japan and Korea. Thus, shortly afterwards the first exploratory visits to these two countries were conducted by CARE staffers. 101 By early 1948 CARE had officially expanded its services beyond Europe to Asia and opened its first offices in Tokyo and the port city of Busan, South Korea (see Chapter 3 ). 102 Shortly afterwards, Paul French was authorized to investigate the possibilities for
British economic recovery and damaging rearmament efforts following the start of the Korean War in June 1950. Once again, ministers faced a difficult balancing act between implementing anti-communist measures and freedom of expression and civil liberties. The Labour government and MI5 Labour’s landslide victory in the summer of 1945 reportedly posed
December 1923, a shot was fired by Daisuke Namba at Regent Hirohito. Namba was inspired by writings of French and Russian anarchists, and upset by the atrocities committed against Koreans and socialists during the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923. Hirohito was unhurt, but Prime Minister Hamaguchi became the first victim of numerous assassination attempts made in the 1930s by right-wing nationalists and radical young officers in the army and navy; he was shot and injured in November 1930. Naval officers who felt betrayed that the London Naval Treaty limited the size of
T HE A SIA -P ACIFIC IS ONE of the most intensely nuclearized regions in the world. It is the only region where nuclear weapons have been used in attack, it has elicited grave international concern about nuclear proliferation – namely in India, Pakistan and North Korea – and it is home to three key recognized nuclear weapon states, China