Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History

Fought on what to Westerners was a remote peninsula in northeast Asia, the Korean War was a defining moment of the Cold War. It militarized a conflict that previously had been largely political and economic. And it solidified a series of divisions—of Korea into North and South, of Germany and Europe into East and West, and of China into the mainland and Taiwan—which were to persist for at least two generations. Two of these divisions continue to the present, marking two of the most dangerou...