This Year of the Tiger saw the publication of two important works on the Korean War: the Korean-American novelist Chang-Rae Lee’s The Surrendered, which deals with war and post-war trauma and They Came from the North, the second volume in military historian Allan Millett’s masterly series on the war. And yet the 1950-1953 war is barely known in the West even its start dates are disputable. This was the first hot war of the Cold War the first (and only) battlefield clash of superpowers the first “limited war.” Given that the stances of the key external actors, China and the United States, have changed little since the winter of 1950 in terms of support for their respective allies, the shadow of a scythe still hangs over the peninsula another conflict is not unthinkable. This year marks what is widely considered the sixtieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
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