YUSHIN KIM: The UNIFIER of the KOREAN PENINSULA

You will find a lot of apostrophes ('') and hyphens (-) throughout the pages. They are NOT an''y form''at or [pro-]gramm''at-ic''al errors to be edited. The man lived with the people, among the people, through the hardest moment in their lives. You will read the most heartfelt and inspirational biography on survival and success. Years of hard work from a staggering array of archival sources and diligent new analysis on historical, archaeological and linguistic discoveries have been carried out for this series. The goal is not to brag about the hard research the author has conducted, but to make the complicated history short, clear and easy for the readers. Some point out the names of polities different than the standard they''ve been taught. But what if the current standards they believe are true were not really true? If a daddy trying to put a jacket on his kid starts the first button wrong, despite his love of the kid, he will make the kid look pretty stupid in that cloth after all. By whom and when were the standards they know today as truth established and settled as familiar facts for those who''ve been educated under the very standard? Can we really tell the founders of these standards were hundred-percent right? Do we really have to believe that the people of an ancient country who actually lived in that country two thousand years ago really called the country the way we call it today? How can we be so sure about it if the name has been only recorded in pictograms, not phonograms, without any voice record? The standard way to read certain pictographic characters has changed through centuries. "Young''s story makes the readers think what kind of leader we would willingly follow into danger for a greater cause." In nearly 1000 years there has been an overwhelming body of study on this man in Korea, much of it incomplete and oftentimes contradictory all having missed the real point. This book sheds new light on the background and motives of the ancient military leader KIM Yushin (595-673) and his mechanics of how to change the old, stagnated Silla society. We''ve been taught that the great revolutions we commemorate happened due to ideological motivation. But what was the real motivation behind the ideologies that brought the great events in our history shaping our world the way she is today? This moving personal story of a man finding his identity in a new country for his family will tell his real motivation for the great achievement, just like the U.S. Naval boat PT 109 in the Pacific in 1943 made then-Navy Lieutenant (Junior Grade) John F. KENNEDY eager for power in Washington. In preparing his study, Young spared no effort getting at the forgotten truth: Not to mention the countless visits to the old capital and famous battlefields, he even marched miles into the deserted place and climbed up to the mountain top to see the general''s birth place with his own eyes. Thanks to Young''s discoveries, readers will have a new understanding of this defining ancient figure, not only in Korean history, but in our Human history. Provocative, absorbing, utterly cogent, at times controversial, the Unifier of the Korean Peninsula finally makes sense of this Human ancestor whose causes and effects reverberate to this day. Plus, in the Bonus Read section, we learn about the U.S. Army Colonel Young KIM. He represents all three peoples of Korea, Japan and America as he bled with his "all American" brothers side by side in the two most destructive international conflicts, the Korean War and Second World War. For the U.S. federal government seeking for the stable alliance among the United States, Japan and South Korea, his heroic legend will serve as an impeccable icon to bring a bond of alliance with sincere trust upon all three parties.