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The naval policy of the Republic of Korea :

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The naval policy of the Republic of Korea :

[Thesis]

Cho, Young-Joo

from the beginnings to the twenty-first century

Grove, Eric J.

University of Hull

2003

Ph.D.

University of Hull

2003

Background Maritime History of KoreaAs is true of all countries, Korea's geography is a major factor in shaping itshistory. Korea is a peninsula, which extends southward from the Eurasian landmassbetween Russian Siberia and Chinese Manchuria. It is surrounded by the two great hindpowers (China and Russia) and one great maritime power (Japan). During its history,neighbouring countries have invaded Korea over 900 times, in incursions both great andsmall, by land and sea. 1 This has been a sad history of victimisation by foreignintruders as the Koreans have virtually no record of aggressive ambition outside theirpeninsula.2The first recorded maritime activity of Korea relates to King Jun of Ancient.Choson. In 193 B.C. Wee Man, a former officer of the Kingdom of the Chinese Yen,took over the throne of Ancient Choson. 3 King Jun moved by sea down to the southwesternpart of the Korean Peninsula with his several thousands followers and becamethe King of Han (not to be confused with the Chinese Han Dynasty) after beingvictorious in war against the Mahan.

Politics, International studies, Maritime history, ROK Navy

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University of Hull

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