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The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War - The Untold History (Hardcover)
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The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War - The Untold History (Hardcover)
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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 subjects Traditional 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 "free will" 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
"brainwashing" 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.
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