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64.
TRCK,
www.jinsil.go.kr/english
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65.
Kwon (2008), 166; Cho (2008), 16.

66.
In the words of Drew Faust, president of Harvard, foreword to Kwon (2006), xii.

67.
Choe Myong-hui used this as the title of her monumental documentary of the murderous political trials of her hometown, Namwon. See
Honbul
(Fire Spirit), 3 vols. (Seoul, 1985–92).

68.
Dr. Steven Kim, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, “Major Achievements and Further Agendas,” December 2008, courtesy of
Japan Focus;
also Charles J. Hanley and Jae-Soon Chang, “Children Executed in 1950 South Korean Killings,” Associated Press, Dec. 6, 2008.

1.
Odd Arne Westad,
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2.
NA, 740.0019 file, box 3827, Marshall’s note to Acheson of Jan. 29, 1947, attached to Vincent to Acheson, Jan. 27, 1947; RG335, Secretary of the Army File, box 56, Draper to Royall, Oct. 1, 1947. Here I draw on parts of Cumings,
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3.
C. Wright Mills,
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4.
Russell F. Weigley,
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5.
New York Times
, Op-Ed, March 14, 1994.

6.
Quoted in Cumings (1990), 55.

7.
Cumings (1990), 171–75.

8.
Davis, “The Next Little Dollar,” 66–67, 78; Roger W. Lotchin,
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9.
In May 1966 de Gaulle said he wanted “full sovereignty [over] French territory” and so asked Washington to take American forces and bases home. See Chalmers Johnson,
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10.
Eisenhower quoted in Sherry (1995), 233–35.

1.
New York Times
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2.
David R. McCann’s translation, in
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3.
Knox (1985), 82–83, 449.

4.
Nicolai Ourossoff, “The Mall and Dissonant Voices of Democracy,”
New York Times
(Jan. 16, 2009), C30.

5.
Sheila Miyoshi Jager and Jiyul Kim, “The Korean War After the Cold War: Commemorating the Armistice Agreement,” in Jager and Mitter (2007), 242.

6.
Chinoy (2008), 68.

7.
Bruce B. Auster and Kevin Whitelaw, “Pentagon Plan 5030, a New Blueprint for Facing Down North Korea,”
U.S. News & World Report
(July 21, 2003); see also Chinoy (2008), 234.

8.
President Roh Moo Hyun, “On History, Nationalism and a Northeast Asian Community,”
Global Asia
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9.
Choe Sang-hun, “A Korean Village Torn Apart from Within Mends Itself,”
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