‘Good’ and ‘bad’ war – and the struggle of memory against forgetting

Like most Koreans, the farmers and fishing families protested the senseless division of their nation between north and south in 1945 - a line drawn along the 38th Parallel by an American official, Dean Rusk, who had "consulted a map around midnight on the day after we obliterated Nagasaki with an atomic bomb," wrote Cumings. The myth of a "good" Korea (the south) and a "bad" Korea (the north) was invented.The post ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ war – and the struggle of memory against forgetting appeared first on BSNEWS.

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