The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War
The Untold History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7307707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kyung‐yong Kim (0000-0003-2138-4536, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, corresponding author), Kevin Y Kim (University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 819-820 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jaz638 |
| OpenAlex | W3150441291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
In this thought-provoking book, Monica Kim uses an iconic Korean War figure—the prisoner of war (Pow)—to illuminate Cold War decolonization in Asia. The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War argues that the “forgotten war” was important for its escalation not only of Cold War politico-military tensions but also lesser-known sociocultural tensions, especially among Koreans, for whom the war climaxed a long, agonizing era of colonialism and anticolonialism. Broadly, Kim argues that the legal and sociocultural battles waged by United Nations (Un) representatives and Communist delegates over the Pow's voluntary repatriation—a new humanitarian concept that broke with established law—emphasize modern warfare's “productive capabilities” over “its destructive ones” (p. 354, emphasis in original). Within the conflict's turbulent social context, the Pow was not only the chief diplomatic obstacle to a truce agreement but also a foundational construct for a U.S. “liberal empire” globally expanding by treating human “interiority” as “both the terrain and jus ad bellum” of war (pp. 15, 356
Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Decolonization · Empire · International law · Interrogation · Just war theory · Political science · Politics · Repatriation · Spanish Civil War · War crime · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |