@article{448654,
      recid = {448654},
      author = {Beal, Tim.},
      title = {Crisis in Korea America, China and the risk of war /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Pluto Press,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 268 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"The South Korean warship Cheonan was sunk in mysterious  circumstances on 26 March 2010. The remarkable events that  followed are analysed by Tim Beal and woven into a larger  study of the increasingly volatile relations between North  and South Korea and US concern about the rise of China.   South Korea's stance towards the North has hardened  significantly since the new conservative government came to  power. Beal argues that the South moved quickly to use the  sinking of the Cheonan to put international pressure on the  North, even before the cause of the sinking had been  established. The US followed suit by attempting to  pressurise China into condemning North Korea. The media  reports at the time presented an open and shut case of  unprovoked North Korean aggression, but the evidence points  towards the accidental triggering of a South Korean mine as  the cause and South Korean fabrication to incriminate the  North.  With the South bent on forcing the fall of the  North's regime with US help and China unlikely to stand  idly by, this book offers an essential guide to the key  factors behind the crisis and possible  solutions."--Publisher's website.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/448654},
}