In 1945, following the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Japan surrendered and ended its brutal 50-year occupation of Korea.
But it left the country in utter disarray, with no functioning
government to begin the difficult job of rebuilding. In 1948, the
United States and the Soviet Union agreed to split the country in
half. Each side aggressively sought reunification; the eruption of
civil war was only a matter of time. In 1950, North Korea launched
an offensive, that began a three-year war. But for two of the three
years that the war was under way, both sides were actually trying
to negotiate a peace.
Written with the help of Soviet and Chinese sources, which
became accessible after the Cold War; as well as U.S., Soviet, and
Chinese archival sources, memoirs, and secondary literature, this
book examines the course of that war from the perspectives of all
the players, including the role of the Commonwealth and the United
Nations. In particular, it concentrates on Korean War diplomacy and
deals with issues which affected multiple countries and had
long-term implications.
One of those implications, which became obvious as Mount
proceeded with his research, was U.S. policies toward Canada.
Despite oft-repeated platitudes about a "special relationship,"
what is striking, he argues, is the great extent to which American
policy toward Canada conforms to U.S. policy toward the rest of the
world. In order to compensate, Canada turned to multinational
organizations, wherein they could join forces with like-minded
countries to prepare a common front. What this has meant for
Canada, and its potential influence in the world in the 21st
century, is yet one more effect of this"Forgotten War" examined
here.
Graeme Mount teaches history at Laurentian University, Sudbury,
Ontario. He is author of "Invisible and Inaudible in Washington:
American Policies Toward Canada During the Cold War "and" Chile and
the Nazis."
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