Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to create a totally isolated and hermetic society, northern Korea in the years...
The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them, with their nuclear-family implications, as 'Fat Man and Little Boy.') And a...
Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.
Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end.
Eventually the Korean War will be understood as one of the most destructive and one of the most important wars of the twentieth century.
In fact the United States has had no exit strategy since 1945, expect in places where we were kicked out (Vietnam) or asked to leave (the Philippines): American troops still occupy Japan, Korea, and G...
It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.