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- Spring thaw for Korea's cold war? Cumings, B. // Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Apr1992, Vol. 48 Issue 3, p14
Investigates Korea in 1992, a museum of the war in which four million people died and a microcosm of the Cold War confrontation that bedeviled world peace for 40 years. December 1991 signing of an agreement on reconciliation and nonaggression; China's trade relations with Seoul; Removal of US...
- Korea: Cold War battleground. Mattila, N.N. // Cobblestone;May91, Vol. 12 Issue 5, p16
Recounts the North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950, which resulted in the US involvement there until 1953, when an armistice was signed. Republic of Korea (ROK) efforts; Command of United Nation forces by General Douglas MacArthur; Chineseinvolvement; Peace talk problems. INSET:...
- Beginning to remember Korea. Bushkoff, Leonard // Christian Science Monitor;8/8/95, Vol. 87 Issue 177, p20
Opinion. Recounts the various happenings in the Korean War that happened in 1953 and lasted for almost 3 years. Reasons behind the America's indifference to the war; Explanation given by General Douglas MacArthur; Final results of the war and its implications for US; History on the war by...
- Rehearsal for a disaster. McGrath, P. // Newsweek;11/30/87, Vol. 110 Issue 22, p47
The Korean War may be the least understood of America's military ventures. It took an estimated 1.5 million lives on both sides, yet it left a surprisingly slight impression on the national memory. But the Korean War deserves reconsideration, because it was a military rehearsal for the...
- The forgotten men of Korea's Chosin Reservoir. // Yankee;Dec85, Vol. 49 Issue 12, p80
On Nov. 27, 1950, 2,800 US Army troops advanced along the east shore of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. By Dec. 2, all but 385 were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. The mystery of what happened during those five days has been probed by two veterans.
- The limits of constraint: Canadian-American relations and the Korean War, 1950-51. Prince, Robert S. // Journal of Canadian Studies;Winter92/93, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p129
Re-examines some of the key issues of Canadian-American diplomacy during the first seven months of the Korean War. Research sources; Central importance of American forces; Influence of Canada's External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson; Department of External Affairs (DEA); United Nations...
- America's forgotten war. Tarshis, L. // Scholastic Update;3/20/92, Vol. 124 Issue 13, p10
Looks back at the Korean War, best known as the war that America has forgotten. How it began in 1950, the first conflict of the Cold War era; Battle between the United States and the Soviet Union over the political and economic future of Korea; Challenges that faced American troops sent to the...
- New Russian archival materials, old American debates, and the Korean War. Weathersby, Kathryn // Problems of Post-Communism;Sep/Oct95, Vol. 42 Issue 5, p25
Outlines the major conclusions about the origins of the Korean War from the archives of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Presidential Archive of the Russian Federation and the archive of the General Staff of the Russian Armed...
- Americans should remember lessons of `the forgotten war'. Garamone, Jim // Army Communicator;Fall95, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p50
Focuses on the participation of the United States in the Korean War during the 1950s. Division of the Korean peninsula after World War II; North Korea's attack on South Korea on June 25, 1950; Involvement of the United States and the United Nations in the war; End of the war in 1953; US'...
