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Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor of Japanese History, Convenor of the Division of Pacific and Asian History in the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.
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I should look more into this. It seems very interesting. It seems like a video summary of a book of which I now want to read but do not have the cash for right now, but for those of you with a little cash to spare, this may be worth a look:Amazon link to Exodus to North Korea:
Sphere: Related ContentThrough travels that range from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War the return of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. For most, their new home proved a place of poverty and hardship; for thousands, it was a place of persecution and death. In rediscovering their extraordinary personal stories, this book also casts new light on the politics of the Cold War, and on present-day tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world.
She finds MacArthur’s comments the most shocking? Thats probably because she
cannot read Japanese or Korean.
I cannot read Japanese or Korean either. That should be my next posting. It will make me look stupid, but does not hurt to ask.
