State Security and Regime Security: President Syngman Rhee and the Insecurity Dilemma in South Korea 1953–60

✍ Scribed by Yong-Pyo Hong (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 230
• Series: St Antony‘s Series
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Historical Setting: The Division of Korea, the Korean War, and the Evolution of Syngman Rhee’s Anti-Communist Policy....Pages 15-39
The Ending of the Korean War and Syngman Rhee’s Search for a US—ROK Mutual Defence Treaty, April–August 1953....Pages 40-58
The Post-Armistice Security Policy of Syngman Rhee: The Strengthening of ROK Forces, September 1953–November 1954....Pages 59-81
Internal and External Challenges to the Rhee Regime and Rhee’s Growing Concern for Regime Security, November 1954–May 1956....Pages 82-101
The Primacy of Regime Security and the Vulnerability of State Security, May 1956–November 1958....Pages 102-122
The Domestic Use of State Security and the Collapse of the Rhee Regime, December 1958–April 1960....Pages 123-143
Conclusion: The Insecurity Dilemma in South Korea....Pages 144-154
Back Matter....Pages 155-219

✦ Subjects

Asian Politics; Political Science