[KS] Talk at Library of Congress on U.S.-Korean Relations

[Gregg Brazinsky]

The LIBRARY of  CONGRESS
John W. Kluge Center
Resident Scholar Seminar Program

Kluge Fellow and Assistant Professor of History, The George Washington University
Dr. Gregg Brazinsky

presents

"Nation Building and War: The United States and the Creation of the ROK Military"

During the Korean War the United States established a new South Korean military that had over 700,000 members by the end of the war.  Americans saw this military
establishment not only as a means of defending South Korea's security
but also as a mechanism for accelerating the political and economic development of the country.  In addition to training Korean officers in military techniques, American advisors sought to inculcate them with a sense of progressive nationalism that would turn them into nation builders par excellence.  Within a decade the military assumed a role in national politics that would have been unimaginable in the previous century of Korean history.

Wednesday -- March 31, 2004
2:30 p.m., LJ  - 119
Thomas Jefferson Building
Library of Congress

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at (202) 707-6362 or <ADA at loc.gov>

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