Season 2, Episode 12: Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History

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Join Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Professor Bruce Cumings,
renowned historian and  expert in East-Asian history, to
discuss Cuming’s book, The Korean War. Together, they discuss the
factors that led to the Korean War, its brutal trajectory, and
its powerful and fateful impacts US foreign policy. 


The Korean War, though little known or understood today,
continues to cast a long shadow on geopolitics and US foreign
policy up to this day.  Cumings offers a profound and
essential look into a war that is widely misunderstood,
forgotten, or willfully ignored, but that still deeply shapes our
world.   

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Footnotes:


Korean War

World War II

American Military in WWII 

US Second Amendment 

NSC68

38th Parallel 

Pro-Japanese Collaborators 

Five Theories of Korean Unification

Dean Acheson

Marshall Plan Speech

Korean War and Japan’s Recovery

Cold War

Declaration of Neutrality 

George Kennan 

Guerrilla Operations in North Korea 

US in the Korean War

American Armed Forces Statistics

Nuclear Arms Race



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