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

Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs

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
• Yellow River Flood

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