Reading List

South Korea Reading List

The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want,
Where Their Future Lies
Michael Breen

Korea's Place in the Sun
Bruce Cummings

North Korea

The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Kang, Chol-Hwan

North of the DMZ
Andrei Lankov

Korean War

From Pusan to Panmunjom
GEN (Ret.) Paik Sun-yup

The Coldest Winter: America in the Korean War
David Halberstam

Regional

Mao's Military Romanticism: China and the
Korean War, 1950-1953
Shu Guang Zhang

The Partition of Korea after World War II
Jongsoo James Lee

The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History
Don Oberdorfer

The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese
Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910
Peter Duus

The Cleanest Race: How North Korea See Themselves
B.R. Myers

Over the Line: North Korea's Negotiating Strategy
Chuck Downs

A Short History of the Korean War
James L. Stokesbury

This Kind of War
T. R. Fehrenbach

Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the
Korean War
Sergei Goncharov

The Party: The Secret World of China's
Communist Rulers
Richard McGregor

Korea: A Walk Through the Land of
Miracles
Simon Winchester