history and memory… Napalm and Invasion: North Korean War Memory and British Sources 1 Jun 201716 Jul 2018 In a recent post on his black-and-white personal blog, the North Korea scholar B.R. Myers criticizes a recent ream of journalistic think pieces about the function of Korean War memory in the…
American Foreign Policy… Recent Histories of (Local) Violence in the Korean War 17 Oct 201617 Oct 2016 Today I received a stunning new text: Su-kyoung Hwang's monograph Korea's Grievous War (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). A link to the publisher's description of the book is here. Dr.…
Korean War… Occupying North Korea, Witnessing Massacre? Military Sources and the Question of US/UK Forces in Sinchon 19 Jul 201519 Jul 2015 The North Korean state claims that US troops arrived in Sinchon, Hwanghae province, on 17 October 1950 and promptly began butchering civilians, culminating in over 35,000 dead by the time…
history and memory… Notes on the Sinchon Massacre 16 May 2015 The death of North Korean civilians at Sinchon is significant on a few levels. On the one hand, it calls our attention to the always fractious topic of war crimes…
Adam Cathcart 