Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War (eBook)

The Untold History

Monica Kim (Autor)

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2019
452 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18504-0 (ISBN)

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Monica Kim is assistant professor of history at New York University. She lives in New York City.

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A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle-not over land but over human subjectsTraditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula. But The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War presents an entirely new narrative, shifting the perspective from the boundaries of the battlefield to inside the interrogation room. Upending conventional notions of what we think of as geographies of military conflict, Monica Kim demonstrates how the Korean War evolved from a fight over territory to one over human interiority and the individual human subject, forging the template for the US wars of intervention that would predominate during the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond.Kim looks at how, during the armistice negotiations, the United States and their allies proposed a new kind of interrogation room: one in which POWs could exercise their "e;free will"e; and choose which country they would go to after the ceasefire. The global controversy that erupted exposed how interrogation rooms had become a flashpoint for the struggles between the ambitions of empire and the demands for decolonization, as the aim of interrogation was to produce subjects who attested to a nation's right to govern. The complex web of interrogators and prisoners-Japanese-American interrogators, Indian military personnel, Korean POWs and interrogators, and American POWs-that Kim uncovers contradicts the simple story in US popular memory of "e;brainwashing"e; during the Korean War.Bringing together a vast range of sources that track two generations of people moving between three continents, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War delves into an essential yet overlooked aspect of modern warfare in the twentieth century.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.2.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 38th parallel • Across the Pacific • Aftermath of World War II • American imperialism • American prisoners of war • Anti-Communism • Archive • armistice • Asian Americans • barbed wire • Brainwashing • Bruce Cumings • civilian • Civilian Internee • Cold War • Colonialism • communism • Consideration • containment • Counterintelligence Corps • Criticism • Custodian Force of India • Decolonization • Diplomacy • Disgust • Division of Korea • Empire of Japan • enemy alien • Espionage • Explanation • Fourth Geneva Convention • Francis Dodd • Geneva Conventions • Geopolitics • Governance • Harry S. Truman • Ideology • imperialism • Intelligence • International Committee of the Red Cross • International Humanitarian Law • International Law • internment • Interrogation • interrogation room • interrogation rooms • interrogator • interrogators • Japanese American internment camps • japanese americans • Kidnapping • Koje Island • Korea • Korean Armistice Agreement • Korean Communists • Korean Peninsula • Korean People's Army • koreans • Korean War • Korean youth • Korea under Japanese rule • laborer • language • law of war • Lecture • manchukuo • Manchuria • Militarism • militarization • military conflict • military history • Military Intelligence Service (United States) • military occupation • modern warfare • narrative • National Archives and Records Administration • national security • nation state • Nation-state • Neutral country • neutral explanation rooms • neutrality • newspaper • nisei • North Korea • NSC-68 • occupation of japan • Oral History • Pamphlet • Panmunjom • peasant • personal history • Police action • political recognition • political strategy • Politics • POW • POW camp • pow camps • Prisoner of War • Prisoners of war • proclamation • Psychological Strategy Board • Psychological Warfare • repatriation • Repatriation (humans) • Republic of Korea Army • rightists • Seoul • Slavery • South Korea • Sovereignty • Spelling • State-Building • state of emergency • State of Exception • Subjectivity • surrender of japan • Surveillance • Syngman Rhee • The Other Hand • thirty-eighth parallel • Torture • Totalitarianism • Transliteration • Treaty • UNC • United Nations • United Nations Command • United States • United States Armed Forces • United States Department of State • US Counterintelligence Corps • US military • US occupation • war • warfare • World War II • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18504-2 / 0691185042
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18504-0 / 9780691185040