Hostname: page-component-55f67697df-twqc4 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-05-11T10:21:14.851Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Contested Waters - Contested Texts: Storm over Korea's West Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Gavan McCormack
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

This is the story of a text, which was briefly posted at The Asia Pacific Journal on 6 February, and almost immediately (within hours) withdrawn. The author was Kim Manbok, who from November 2006 to January 2008 was Director of the South Korean National Intelligence Service (Korean CIA) under the Government of President Roh Moo-hyun. His text was entitled “Let Us Turn Korea's West Sea (the Sea of Dispute) into a Sea of Peace and Prosperity.” The Asia-Pacific Journal is not noted for publishing articles by present or former national intelligence chiefs, and so both the posting and then the withdrawal of this text were almost equally unusual.

Type
Research Article
Information
Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 9 , Issue 8 , February 2011 , e5
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BYCreative Common License - NCCreative Common License - ND
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.
Copyright
Copyright © The Authors 2011

References

Notes

1 “Funso no umi, ‘Sohe’ o heiwa to hanei no umi ni suru tame ni,” Sekai, February 2011, pp. 56-66.

2 I here refer to the Japanese version of this article, written by Tokyo correspondent Cha Hak-bon, published on line 13 January as “Moto Kokujoincho ‘Yeonpyeongdo hogeki wa gen seiken ga maneita’,” in 2 parts, Chosun ilbo, link.

3 Chon Gwon-hyon, “Koramu, Iwanami shoten ‘Sekai’ ni kiko shita moto kokkajohoin-cho,” Chosun ilbo, 30 January 2011.

4 Okamoto Atsushi, “Kim Man-bok shi e no Kankoku, kokkajohoin no kokuhatsu e no komento,” 31 January 2011.

5 See Seunghun Lee and J.J. Suh, “Rush to Judgement: Inconsistencies in South Korea's Cheonan Report,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, 12 July 2010.

6 “All this fuss just to leave Roh's name in North Korea,” Chosun ilbo, 15 February 2008, link.

7 For a detailed account of the complex South-North cooperation schemes as of late 2007, that warrants reading in conjunction with the Kim Man-bok account introduced in the present article, see especially the second part of Aidan Foster-Carter's two-part article in 38 North, 20 January 2011, “Lee Myung Bak, Pragmatic Moderate? The Way We Were, 2007,” link, and “Scrapping the Second Summit: Lee Myung Bak's Fateful Mis-step,” link.

8 Son Jun-hyun, “U.N. rapporteur reports freedom of expression severely curtailed under Lee administration,” The Hankyoreh, 18 February 2011.