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(New York: Columbia University Press, 2015). 240 pp. $35.00 cloth. A snapshot of South Korea in early March 2014 shows the convoluted nature of the South Korea-Japan relationship—two tacit allies united by virtue of the U.S. military stewardship that just cannot seem to get along. On 3 March, Asian Institute for Policy Studies, the Seoul-based think tank, conducted a phone survey of 1,000 South Koreans, asking respondents to rate the leaders of North Korea, Japan, the United States, China, and Russia on a ten-point scale. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came out ahead of Japan’s Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, registering a rating of 1.3 as compared to 1.1 on the survey’s zero-to-ten scale, zero being the least favorable. Among the leaders of the other three nations, Barack Obama led with a score of 6.2. Xi Jinping came in second at just under 5, with Vladimir Putin next at 3.5. That South Koreans overall favored Obama, the leader of their sole treaty ally, made sense. But to think that a people who face an existential threat from the menacing dynastic dictatorship in Pyongyang actually would favor the leader of China that shares with North Korea an alliance forged
Journal of American-East Asian Relations – Brill
Published: Jun 17, 2016
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