In this book analyze the diplomatic ralationship between korea and japan during the period of the formation of modern nation-states in the nineteenth century. in doing so, three main issues are explored: i) the nature of the Korean-Japanese diplomatic relations institutionalized and stabilized for several hundred years as a peculiar international system; Kyorin, ii) how this system was connecte…
This comprehensive book explains that while world politics has entered the post-Cold War era since the late 1980s, the Korean peninsula has not. Diplomatic relations have yet to be established between North Korea, the US and Japan, while conventional military confrontation has persisted. Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme has further increased tensions and the possibility of war has frequent…