Korea by Michael Pembroke

This is a very good read and should be a compulsory read in order to understand our times. Michael Pembroke has produced a page turner of the history of Korea and America’s involvement. The main events on which everything hinges were an invasion of North Korea by the US Army in 1950 in an apparent attempt by General Douglas MacArthur to invade China. China responded by annihilating two US Armies and chasing the remnants back over the 38th ‘parallel’ to South Korea. US responded by bombing the crap out of the North for three years until no building of any kind (farmhouse or hovel) existed in the North. Napalm was extensively used to kill the civilian population (and very likely biological weapons were also used – all records have been destroyed or reclassified). The war between the two countries has never finished. An armistice was negotiated but not peace. US has continued to threaten North Korea ever since.

It is actually the loss of its armies in Korea in 1950 that caused the huge escalation in the US military industry.

The current threatening of North Korea in a mistaken attempt to have the North toe the American line has no chance of success. North Korea has no reason to trust anything about the Americans. The North has only seen invasion and bombing. There is little wonder that North Korea is trying to protect itself.

The problem is that the US has forgotten this history of invasion (if it ever knew it).

A very good book. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐