Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea by Sheila Miyoshi Jager [Book Review]
This year marks the 60th anniversary of, if not the end of the Korean War, at least the Armistice. That’s two generations. For almost anyone under the age of about thirty, the first-pass conventional view of the Korean War, if one thinks about it at all, is probably simple: North…
Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia’s Underground Railroad by Melanie Kirkpatrick [Book Review]
For a state considered a charter member of the so-called “Axis of Evil”, North Korea never seems to remain the center of global attention for long. It is one of the places that the average person (or indeed, almost anyone) really knows nothing about: we don’t know how…
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