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Posts Tagged ‘Korean History’

Kim Gu: Terrorist Freedom Fighter

Andrei Lankov’s latest, in his ongoing series of interesting columns about Korean history in The Korea Times, is about the assassination and historical status of Korean terrorist “freedom fighter” Kim Gu.

One of the things that Lankov fails to mention, though, is that Kim Gu himself  - who looks more like the Mad Hatter from Alice [...]

The Korean “Sideshow”

Over at 우물안개구리 (Frog in a Well), Jonathan Dresner makes some cutting remarks about Edward Luttwak’s characterizing the Korean War as a “sideshow” in the post-WW2 crusade against communism while Luttwak tries favorably to compare the Shrub in his manifestation as Guy de Lusignan to President “The Buck Stops Here” Truman.  I’m not [...]