Korea: 70 Years On

Guns and Hunger

– Jean H. Lee

Reflections on one South Korean family's journey through the conflict and beyond.

Bridges at Panmunjom

– Lt. Col. Sean Morrow

The former commander of the United Nations Command Security Battalion-Joint Security Area in Korea’s DMZ reflects on the past and present at “the world’s loneliest outpost.”

Past Present

– Katie Stallard-Blanchette

Kim Il Sung created a powerful fiction to gain power. His family has used it to stay there.

Together Apart

– Soojin Park

Challenges inside and outside South Korea make unification an increasingly vexing question.

Eternal Victory

– Abraham Denmark and Lucas Myers

China’s view of the Korean War has not changed much since 1953. What ripples does this cause in Asia and across the globe?

Scorch Marks

– Charles J. Hanley

Ghost Flames tells the story of the Korean War through indelible vignettes from participants.

Korean War: Myths and Misconceptions

– Samuel F. Wells, Jr., Robert S. Litwak, Donggil Kim, and Youngjun Kim

Scholars assess what we still get wrong about the so-called “Forgotten War.”

Korean War: Open Questions

– Gregg Brazinsky, Chen Jian, Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Jiyul Kim, and Michael Devine

Historians examine what we still need to know about the so-called “Forgotten War.”

“May We Unfold the Radiant Fatherland!”

– Yee Rem Kim

How lost writings of North Korean soldiers challenge long-held notions of the war.

Meatball Surgery

– John Strausbaugh

Hollywood didn’t dream up the Korean War’s most vivid U.S. cultural landmark. An irascible conservative doctor did.

Korea 1945 - 1953: A Global Conflict

– The Wilson Quarterly

A history of the Korean War in archival documents and images.