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Action Likely in Pacific - Secret Agent Kilsoo Haan, Pearl Harbor and the Creation of North Korea (Hardcover)
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Action Likely in Pacific - Secret Agent Kilsoo Haan, Pearl Harbor and the Creation of North Korea (Hardcover)
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A story of espionage that could have changed the course of history
and saved thousands of American and British lives - and millions of
Asian lives. 'On the night of 3 December 1941, I could not fall
asleep,' Kilsoo Haan remembered. 'I went to the Chop Suey House,
the Chinese Lantern, and ordered a bowl of Chinese soup. Next to my
table, a Japanese was trying to sell a Chinese a second-hand
automobile. After the Japanese left, the Chinese said to me, "You
like to buy cheap automobile?" After a pause he said, "This
Japanese is selling four automobiles owned by the Japanese Embassy
workers because they are going to Japan pretty soon... Oh so
cheap."' Four days later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Before
the Second World War, Korean-American Kilsoo Haan repeatedly warned
the United States about the Japanese attack and accurately supplied
every conceivable detail as relayed to him by Korean agents: midget
submarines as well as aircraft at Pearl Harbor, then giant
submarine aircraft carriers on the high seas that almost bombed San
Diego with plague germs until Tojo cancelled the air strike, and a
joint Chinese-Japanese attack - Operation Ichi-Go - against the
American and Chinese Nationalist forces, which drove through Chiang
Kai-shek's much larger army. When US political bungling helped to
create a Communist North Korea, Haan continued to supply
information about Soviet nuclear tests in Siberia, the development
of Soviet guided missiles, and the North Korean invasion of the
Republic of Korea, which led to thousands of American and British
casualties. He was ignored. The story of American influence in
Korea and dealings with Japan provides a little-known new
perspective on the Pacific War and remains a factor today in
international politics. Author John Koster explains the tragic and
bloody entangled histories of Japan, China and Korea that form the
backdrop to this extraordinary story.
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