After reading it, I felt obliged to share with my English readers some of the fascinating highlights of "Peace Hanging on the Blade of a Sword" authored by Dr. Lee Jong-seok, a former unification minister during the Roh Moo-hyun presidency.
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It describes "successes and failures, achievements and mistakes, as well as a sense of achievement and frustration in the areas of diplomacy and security": It explains how they came about, and why Roh's policy team could not have done better. It is about a struggle between conventional conformists of those times and the innovative thinkers who had their eyes on the future.