DMZ Crossing
DMZ Crossing

Author: Suk-Young Kim

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2014-03-18

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0231537263

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The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean division. This book focuses on a diverse selection of inter-Korean border crossers and the citizenship they acquire based on emotional affiliation rather than constitutional delineation. Using their physical bodies and emotions as optimal frontiers, these individuals resist the state's right to draw geopolitical borders and define their national identity. Drawing on sources that range from North Korean documentary films, museum exhibitions, and theater productions to protester perspectives and interviews with South Korean officials and activists, this volume recasts the history of Korean division and draws a much more nuanced portrait of the region's Cold War legacies. The book ultimately helps readers conceive of the DMZ as a dynamic summation of personalized experiences rather than as a fixed site of historical significance.

DMZ Crossing
DMZ Crossing

Author: Suk-Young Kim

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2014-03-25

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0231164823

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The Korean demilitarized zone might be among the most heavily guarded places on earth, but it also provides passage for thousands of defectors, spies, political emissaries, war prisoners, activists, tourists, and others testing the limits of Korean division. This book focuses on a diverse selection of inter-Korean border crossers and the citizenship they acquire based on emotional affiliation rather than constitutional delineation. Using their physical bodies and emotions as optimal frontiers, these individuals resist the stateÕs right to draw geopolitical borders and define their national identity. Drawing on sources that range from North Korean documentary films, museum exhibitions, and theater productions to protester perspectives and interviews with South Korean officials and activists, this volume recasts the history of Korean division and draws a much more nuanced portrait of the regionÕs Cold War legacies. The book ultimately helps readers conceive of the DMZ as a dynamic summation of personalized experiences rather than as a fixed site of historical significance.

When Spring Comes to the DMZ
When Spring Comes to the DMZ

Author: Ŏk-pae Yi

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780874869729

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"Grandfather returns each year to the demilitarized zone, the barrier--and accidental nature preserve--that separates families that live in North and South Korea."--Provided by publisher.

DMZ Colony
DMZ Colony

Author: Don Mee Choi

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9781940696959

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"A new book by Don Mee Choi that includes poems, prose, and images"--

Crossing the DMZ
Crossing the DMZ

Author: Dennis Darmek

Publisher:

Published: 2022-05

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578380179

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Crossing the DMZ is a photo book focused on a small group of US Marines, mostly teenagers, who volunteered to fight and ended up with their names on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. It takes the form of a personal scrapbook, merging new photographs with military archives, stories and the emotional terrain of our Vietnam memories. According to Larry Schwarm, photographer, "The book falls in that interesting area between art and journalism- it's both. It is beautiful and heartbreaking."With portraits from the 1960s, the young Marines appear frozen in time: confident and cocky, filled with life and proud to wear the uniform. They were volunteers, but basically kids, and remind us of a generation willing to serve their country. In a collaboration between past and present, Vietnamese who live where the battles were fought pose with photos of these Marines. Crossing the DMZ is an intimate portrait of contemporary Vietnam and the people who live around the battlefields. The portraits in this book provide a unique photographic experience; challenging the viewer to interpret complicated emotions and meanings. Photographer Suzanne Rose described the work as: "utterly poetic?you found a path past pain to beauty." A photograph doesn't change over time, but our memory does. Memories are personal: living, evolving emotions. They can be lost or modified or can age over the years. The photos and fragments of history in Crossing the DMZ may help us remember those who didn't return and better understand the people that remain. The writer Henry Godbout stated: "The book marries the honesty of war and who serves, and dies, with the grace and beauty of an art book."

Spies for Hire
Spies for Hire

Author: Tim Shorrock

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 0743282248

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Reveals the formidable organization of intelligence outsourcing that has developed between the U.S. government and private companies since 9/11, in a report that reveals how approximately seventy percent of the nation's funding for top-secret tasks is now being funneled to higher-cost third-party contractors. 35,000 first printing.

The Reluctant Communist
The Reluctant Communist

Author: Charles Robert Jenkins

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780520259997

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"This fast-paced, harrowing tale, told plainly and simply by Jenkins (with journalist Jim Frederick), takes the reader behind the North Korean curtain and, episode by episode, reveals the inner workings of its isolated society. Jenkins mounted numerous failed escape attempts, was indoctrinated against his will into North Korea's communist cadre system, and endured hunger, cold, and isolation. His loneliness was relieved in 1980 by his marriage to Hitomi Soga. a young Japanese woman whom the North Koreans had abducted as part of a wider campaign to teach Japanese to future spies. Jenkins's account of their life together and as parents of two daughters, as welt as their improbable journey to freedom, which began in 2002, brings this story to a close. Four decades in the world's least known, least visited, and least understood land profoundly changed him; his memoir now offers the reader a powerful testament to the human spirit."--BOOK JACKET.

Operation Buffalo
Operation Buffalo

Author: Keith William Nolan

Publisher: Presidio Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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"In his fifth book on the Vietnam War, Nolan presents the definitive account of one of the Marine Corps' most blood-soaked battles: a tale of snipers and ambushes in the blinding elephant grass.." -- Book jacket

Every Falling Star
Every Falling Star

Author: Sungju Lee

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 161312340X

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Written for a young audience, this intense memoir explores the harsh realities of life on the streets in contemporary North Korea. Every Falling Star is the memoir of Sungju Lee, who at the age of twelve was forced to live on the streets of North Korea and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly recreates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with his gang, “his brothers,” to daily be hungry and to fear arrest, imprisonment, and even execution. This riveting memoir allows young readers to learn about other cultures where freedoms they take for granted do not exist.