Theatre of War and Prospects for Peace on the Korean Peninsula on the Anniversary of the Yeonpyeong Incident

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ID2133169
AuthorsTim Beal (0000-0002-4931-8242, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume9
Issue51
Publication date2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJapan focus (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1557466011015737
OpenAlexW4410181544
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

23rd November 2011 was the first anniversary of the artillery exchange between the two Koreas around the island of Yeonpyeong off the west coast of Korea. The artillery battle in 2010 was the first such since the Korean War armistice and brought the peninsula to a state of heightened tension. With the Lee Myungbak administration mulling an invasion of the North in the event of a collapse of the DPRK, a local conflict could easily explode into war. The last year has seen a lopsided arms race with South Korea dramatically increasing its military capabilities on a scale the North cannot match. The South Korean military are under American 'wartime' control, and since for technical reasons as well they cannot engage in war without US support, the Americans would be automatically involved in any war. A US-ROK invasion of the DPRK would almost certainly force China to intervene, as it did in 1950. A second Sino-US war would have calamitous, consequences

Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic history · Geography · Media studies · Peninsula · Political science · Sociology · History · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies

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