Volume 2, Number 11 · July 9, 1964
The Reasons Why
By Geoffrey Barraclough
Korea: The Limited War
by David Rees
St. Martin's Press, 511 pp., $10.00
It is, of course, a mere coincidence that it was exactly one hundred years ago, with the accession of the regent Taiwon-kun, that the modern history of Korea began. But it is a fact it would be an error to ignore. Nothing is easier than to discuss the Korean war of 1950, as Mr. Rees does, as a phase of what he calls 'the world struggle against communism'; nothing could be more misleading. Long before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 Korea was an object of conflict between the powers, and what occurred after 1945 was simply a continuation of the old conflict in new circumstances by new means.
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