The first comprehensive domestic monograph on the post-war history of the Korean Peninsula tells about the secrets of the South Korean “economic miracle”, the secret ways of Pyongyang’s advancement towards atomic weapons, the birth of “Korean-type democracy” in the depths of the authoritarian system of South Korea and its transformation into one of the developed states peace. The ambiguous processes of cultural and civilizational evolution of the two parts of Korea in the conditions of political demarcation are convincingly revealed.