Korean issues related to the Korean War have been interpreted as products of external variables while Korean variables have tended to be ignored. This perspective, Korea merely chanced to be the battlefield upon which the international community fough...
Korean issues related to the Korean War have been interpreted as products of external variables while Korean variables have tended to be ignored. This perspective, Korea merely chanced to be the battlefield upon which the international community fought over issues which the Koreans did not author.
With this in mind, this paper attempts to evaluate the role of the United States in the division of Korean at 38th parallel and the ensuing wars from the perspective of the Korean people themselves rather than through foreign eyes. The war and the division will be analyzed in the immediate Korean historical context, with major criteria based on internal Korean dynamics, employing the historical projection method which I have developed to answer the methodological need to incorporate Third World perspectives into the social sciences.