The Two Koreas: a Contemporary History
“PHOTO BY KIM IN KON/JOONG-ANG PHOTO Presidents Park Chung Hee and Jimmy Carter review troops during Carter’s 1979 visit to Seoul. While cordial in public, the two presidents quarreled bitterly in private over the US troop withdrawal policy. JIMMY CARTER LIBRARY Citizens of Kwangju parade through the streets in a popular uprising in May 1980 after brutal ROK special forces units temporarily withdraw. Many Koreans hold the United States partly to blame. PHOTO BY LEE CHANG SUNG /JOONG-ANG PHOTO President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush, and their wives welcome President Chun Doo Hwan and his wife to the White House in 1981, despite previous US opposition to Chun’s assumption of power by a “coup in all but name.” RONALD REAGAN LIBRARY President Kim Il Sung (center) meets Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko (on Kim’s right) and other leaders in his 1984 visit to Moscow. Politiburo member Mikhail Gorbachev, later to be the Soviet leader, is third from right.
Kim is on outwardly cor...dial terms with Gorbachev in his 1986 visit to Moscow.MoreLess
Kim is on outwardly cor...dial terms with Gorbachev in his 1986 visit to Moscow.MoreLess
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