Korean War Part 1: Traitors and Patriots

Listen to this episode from Perspectives in History on Spotify. After having long been subjected to the rule of foreign powers, it seemed that with the defeat of Japan, the dream of Korean independence might finally be realized. However, the victorious allied powers of World War II had other plans. Download Every Email me: [email protected] Podcast Website Follow me on Twitter Facebook Page Buy Some Used Books Bibliography Cumings, Bruce. The Korean War: A History. Modern Library, 2011. Halliday, John and Cumings, Bruce. Korea: The Unknown War. Pantheon Books, 1988.  Haruki, Wada. The Korean War: An International History. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.  Hanley, Charles J. Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953. Hachette Book Group Inc, 2020.  Hastings, Max. The Korean War. Simon and Schuster, 1987.  Jager, Sheila Miyoshi. Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea. W.W. Norton & Company, 2013.  Mitchell, Arthur H. Understanding the Korean War: The Participants, the Tactics, and the Course of the Conflict. McFarland & Company, 2013. Peters, Richard and Li, Xiaobing. Voices from the Korean War: American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers. The University Press of Kentucky, 2004.   Shinn, Bill. The Forgotten War Remembered, Korea: 1950-1953. Hollym International Corp, 1996.  Cover Image: As U.S. infantrymen march into the Naktong River region, they pass a line of fleeing refugees. August 11th, 1950. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images) Opening Theme: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op. 95, B. 178 by Antonín Dvořák Closing Theme: Arirang, traditional Korean song, performed by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, 2008.