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Week I:
January 8th and 10th:
The Origin and Establishment of the DPRK
Tuesday, January 8th: The Establishment of the DPRK
Thursday, January 10th: The Korean War
Readings:
- Hwang Chang-yop (1999) Na nun Yoksa ui Chilli rul poatta: Hwang Chang-yop Hoegorok (I Saw the Truth of History: Hwang Chang-yop's Memoir), Hanul.
Chapter 2: "In a Liberated Fatherland"
(Sorensen translation on course website)
- Armstrong, Introduction and chapter 1
- Lankov, Commentary on Armstrong (on course website)
- Kim Song-ch'il, "July 26, 1950", from Yoksa ap eso: han sahakcha ui 6.25 ilgi (In Front of History: A Historian's Korean War Diary), (Sorensen translation on course website)
- Ch'oe Unhui, "Chapter 4: An Actress's Sad War" in Glennys Young, ed. The Communist Experience in the Twentieth Century. (New York: Oxford, 2012) pp 270-77 (on course website)
Graduate Readings:
- Bruce Cumings (1981) The Origins of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes 1945-47. Princeton University Press. Chap 11 “The North Wind"
Study Questions:
- What are the main explanations for the establishment of the DPRK? (i.e. compare and contrast our authors)
- Why do you suppose there was little violence in the North during the establishment of the DPRK, while there were a number of violent uprisings in the South before the establishment of the ROK?
- Who is most responsible for the establishment of separate regimes in the North and the South? The Soviets? The US? Kim Il Sung? Syngman Rhee?
- How do we explain the rise of Kim Il Sung to be leader of North Korea as opposed to some other communist?
Response Paper for Friday
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