Divided Korea

[clay dube]

I've put together a 75 slide presentation on "divided Korea." I was going to save it for the follow up weekend as an intro to the film Joint Security Area but given the current interest in North Korea, I thought you might be able to use it with some of your students. So, here it is.

Unfortunately, the photos included push the overall size beyond what the board can handle in a single file. So I've divided the presentation up into three parts. You can readily stitch them back together for your own use.

The three files are
dk1.ppt
dk2.ppt
dk3.ppt

I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't put a link to the presentation on any webpage. If you were to do so, Google or some other search engine would "spyder" through it and then the whole site would be available to the Googling world, including lawyers who would soon be sending me thick packets via registered mail.

Feel free to view it yourself, to show it to your students, or to write the address on the board for them to copy down and view in the lab or at home. You may also wish to save it to your own hard drive so that you can use it whenever you choose. (For Windows users, the WHHT program is wonderful for copying a site to your own disk for use in classrooms not wired to the net or for you to create a cd-rom that you give students to use for research. It is a great way to limit what your students have access to while on a classroom computer. Download WHHT or other such software for free from http://www.download.com.)

There are two versions of the presentation online. The better version is the one geared towards Internet Explorer users (you can thank Microsoft for this "feature" of Powerpoint designed sites). Get to it at: http://international.ucla.edu/asia/nk/dk/dividedkorea.htm
For Netscape or Mozilla users, head to http://international.ucla.edu/asia/nk/opendk/dividedkorea1.htm.

Please let me know what you think. A couple things that I've left out are the 1960 coup, the 1979 assassination and coup, the 1980 Kwangju incident, and the conviction of presidents Chun and Roh.... It might help contextualize the emotions on the peninsula to include images of the destruction of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

smiling,
clay

[clay dube]

Here is the second part of the presentation.

[clay dube]

Here is the third part of the presentation.

[Anonymous]

A couple of months before the U.S.A dropped the nuclear bomb in Japan, President Roosevelt asked the U.S.S.R to join the U.S.A. to fight Japan. Obviously, after Japan surrendered, the U.S.S.R wanted a part of spoils from Japan.
Although the Soviet Russia had not contributed much to the war, they demanded that they rule part of Japan. This demand was denied by the U.S.A., however were allowed to occupy the North of 38th Parallel in Korea. The 38th parallel line was drawn Colonel Rusk who became the Secretary of State in Kennedy's regime. This marks the beginning of the separation of Korea.[Edit by="blee on Jun 12, 11:06:13 PM"][/Edit][Edit by="blee on Jun 12, 11:16:56 PM"][/Edit]

[Anonymous]

I just finished taking a look at the photos on a divided Korea. While viewing the photos, I could not help thinking how Pres. Bush has labeled North Korea as one of the Axis of Evil countries. I believe that there are a couple of ways to bring stability and unify the two Koreas. One way would be to launch a strike on North Korea. Before this is done we would have to relocate the American troops away from the DMZ. They are within sort range missle range. Therefore, watch for some troop redeployment. The other way to gain stability, and this I feel is preferable is to remove Kim Jong Il from power and replace him with someone more subservient to China. If China could reign in North Korea, they would soon implement a less restrictive economy. Opening up trade not only with China but South Korea and other countries which China trades with. Up to now, the the United States policy with North Korea has been simply bribery. We will provide you with food assistance and you stop building nuclear missles. Problem is while we provide food, China has been providing North Korea with military and nuclear technology.

The big question is - Will the United States continue the policy of accepting nuclear blackmail or we will resort to a pre-emptive strike on North Korea?[Edit by="bnakama on Aug 25, 7:52:06 PM"][/Edit]

[Anonymous]

Since I opened my mouth on North Korea, I might as well share my opinion on United States Foreign policy with China. Since the Cultural Revolution the United States has been hoping that China would become a more open society. To accomplish this the United States has pushed for free trade, foreign investment and economic growth.

However, at the same time that we want to develop friendly relations with China, the United States must make it perfectly clear that we will not tolerate China threatening the freedom of Taiwan. President Bush has already declared that we will do whatever it takes to help Taiwan defend herself. To ensure a free Taiwan, the United States will have to show China we are serious. A multi-nation defense pact to defend Taiwan with our allies would be a start. Secondly, military contracts with Taiwan as well as military visits and shared training exercises should deter China.

The future of United States and China relations will depend on how they decide to use their growing economic wealth and influence. If China decides to intimidate or impose on their nieghbors - continued relations will be shaky.

[Anonymous]

RE: PPT presentation: Thanks Clay.
Though I am not a history teacher, I found in a discussion recently that my 7th grade advisory students are very interested in war history. (Though not in History class!) I plan to show this to start discussion during advisory. To all the history teacher/posters, has anyone ever thought to have a club that studies the history of recent wars for middle school students? I would think that there is a lot of potential in such a club for critical thinking, web research, and hands on 3d maps of battles to make it real...podcasting with the songs of the era...
I think any interest that encourages reading is important to cultivate, and this subject is one that some underachievers are very interested in...Personally, I find that having one non fiction area of interest will get a lot of non readers coming back for more...

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