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Article: Korea: a Cold War focal point.(Heritage)
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- Spokesman Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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Like so many areas of the modern world, Korea has suffered through political, economic, and social stability through much of its turbulent history. This has been particularly evident in the 20th century and in the first few years of the 21st. To a significant extent this reputation had been encouraged by the Koreans themselves as they shunned foreign relationships, having earned the name of "Hermit Kingdom." Prior to 1910, Korea loomed large on the horizon as a region that needed to be controlled if regional dominance was to be attained. Russia, China, and Japan had disagreed over Korea with regularity, the question nearly always being who would control the peninsula. ...