Wellsprings of Intervention

oninterference in the affairs of sovereign states has become a rallying-cry in the councils of developing nations, along with anticolonialism and anti-imperialism. It is prominent in the Five Principles adopted at Bandung in 1955, and in the United Nations code of national conduct. It follows logically from the 17th-century concept of national sovereignty in Western international law, and from the 19th-century European idea of nationalism. Expressed as the right of self-determination, this idea was both reflected and promoted by Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points of 1918, and was espoused by colonial peoples in the struggle to throw off European rule.1 record shows, however, that interference, rather than noninterference, has been the rule in the real relations of states since the beginning of recorded history. The strong do what they can;the weak do what they must. More recent events suggest, at best, a very modest trend away from this rule. Intervention by one state in another is recognized and, in some circumstances, sanctioned in international law. Moreover, interference is by no means limited to the superpowers; developing nations are interfering with one another in every region of the globe.2 A better understanding of the nature and causes of interference may help in narrowing the gap between principle and practice. Korea, with its long and painful history of involvement with other nations, is a useful example for the study of such interference.3 purpose of this essay is to contribute a preliminary survey of relationships between Korea and the United States during the past century and more-not in the traditional pattern of studies in inter

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