Walking from Busan to the Blue House for Workers' Rights
Korean trade union leader Kim Jin-suk battles COVID-19, winter, and breast cancer to send a message to profit-making corporations—and keep the promsie of Korea's pro-democracy movement alive.
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The Winter Slaughter
This fall marks the 70th anniversary of a brutal and largely unknown massacre of the early cold war on the Korean island of Cheju/Jeju. In this article, Brendan Wright recounts the history of the massacre, placing it in the context of Cold War politics and the history of the Korean peninsula.
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Peace Regimes
In US–Korean relations, the language of peace has long been a strategy of disavowal, but it has also served as terrain for contestation.
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No "Fight Tonight": The Korean Peninsula, the US, and China
For China, the suspension of US “war games” alongside South Korea — coupled with talk of reducing troop numbers — offers the prospect of restoring its historical dominance on the Korean peninsula.
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Liberals Go Hardline on Korea: An interview with Christine Ahn
Peace activist Christine Ahn condemns the dangerous, opportunistic response to Trump's North Korea talks from American liberals.
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Ending the Korean War: A Transnational Dialogue
Two scholars — Grace M. Cho in the US, and Hosu Kim in South Korea — reflect on the recent developments between the US and North Korea, the ghosts of the Korean War, and the need for peace on the Korean peninsula.
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Broadside for the Trump Era: North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
A compact, printable history of North Korean nuclear weapons development and US reactions to it.
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After the Year of Living Dangerously: Why Pyeongchang really could be the "Peace Games"
Few have given peace on the Korean Peninsula a chance after the Pyeongchang Games finish, but after a tense 2017, the Winter Olympics have opened a path towards peace
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Glitzy Spectacle and Grimy Reality at The Pyeongchang Olympics
Pyeongchang echoes Rio's legacy: political grandstanding, overspending, greenwashing, white-elephant stadiums, and the militarization of public space.
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“Little Rocket Man”: The Anti-Asian Racism of US Empire
Like US violence in Asia, the symbolic infantilization of Asians has a long history.
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Stairs of Metaphor: The Vernacular Substitution – Supplements of South Korean Communism
