Ask any five people on an American college campus or maybe even on the streets of any major city, to…
During the Cold War, the United States and the USSR engaged in a zero-sum game throughout the globe; while mutually…
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With the end of World War II in August 1945, there was still no consensus on Korea’s fate among Allied…
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Chun Doo-hwan, president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988, seized power in 1979 and crushed many democratization movements during…
Walter Mondale, born in Ceylon, Minnesota on January 5, 1928, was the 42nd Vice President of the U.S. under Jimmy…
Syngman Rhee, a staunch anticommunist and authoritarian, was the first president of South Korea. Backed by the United States, Rhee…
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