strategic thinking or the combat experience of American forces. When bookstores and public libraries have any books on the Korean war at all, they tend to be military histories that are written from the American perspective. Much of the literature about the war in the United States focuses on the experiences of a relatively predictable set of actors: political and military leaders and U.S. The Korean War was experienced in different ways by different people. Everett Collection / Shutterstock Open Question: The Lived Experience of North Koreans in the War North Korean delegates to the Communist World Youth Festival parade in East Berlin on August 8, 1951. Researchers have never stopped exploring the conflict, and the opening of new archives in the U.S., Europe, and Asia are helping them do it.įor our Summer 2020 issue, “Korea: 70 Years On,” we asked four distinguished historians to address what they see as the most important open questions about the war and its legacy. What don’t we know? The Korean War is no exception.
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