https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/ccc5331a-a629-4bb9-a143-81dbdbfc238d Link to OG: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=HWlZb4QQYvs https://youtu.be/HWlZb4QQYvs Thank you for Watching! Chapters: Introduction: 00:00 Korea Under Japanese Imperialism: 04:42 The Creation of South Korea (1945-50): 17:15 The Creation of North Korea (1945-50): 36:47 The Korean War: 52:18 The Republic of Korea - History and Development: 1:24:16 The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - History and Development: 2:17:20 Reunification: 3:37:22 Conclusion: 3:55:09 Organisations mentioned: Nodutdol: nodutdol.org/ SPARK: www.spark946.org/english/ Korea Peace Appeal: en.endthekoreanwar.net/ (not sure if they are currently active but they have a few good articles on their site still up) Thumbnail design: Eunsoo Choi @sssueblue Recommended Reading: Patriots, Traitors, and Empire (2018) Stephen Gowans Korea: Division, Reunification, and U.S. Foreign Policy (1997) Martin Hart-Landsberg Blowback Season 3 (Podcast) usoutofkorea.org/toolkit (Good compilation of resources put together by Korean Re-unification activists) DPRK Explained: / @dprkexplained War By Other Means: apjjf.org/2014/12/13/Christine-Hong/4100/article Who Started the Korean War? Three Mosaics (1990) Bruce Cummings North Korea: Another Country (2003) Bruce Cummings In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report (1949) Anna Louise Strong Sanctions of Empire (by Nodutol): nodutdol.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sanctions-… Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order (2023) A.B. Abrahams contents.history.go.kr/photo/1920/1920_period04_01… Madeline Pendleton has also put together a pretty good collection of resources: docs.google.com/document/d/1fPJjTYGBo4QRuafFkbWTA8… Recommended Viewing (relevant Korean cinema and documentaries): My Brothers and Sisters In the North (2016) Sung Hyung Cho Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul (2018) David Yun Their Gwanju, Our Gwanju: • [Their Gwangju, Our Gwangju] English ver. ... We Went To North Korea To Get a Haircut: • We Went To North Korea To Get A Haircut The Taxi Driver (2017) Jang Hoon The President’s Last Bang (2005) Im Sang-soo (This is the movie about Park Chung-Hee I mentioned that was censored by the South Korean government) JSA: Joint Security Area (2000) Park Chan-Wook A Single Spark (1995) Park Kwang-su O, Youth (1995) Jon Jong-Pal Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012) Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bonner, Gwang Hun Kim Default (2018) Choi Kook-hee Barbie (2011) Lee Sang-woo Dance Town (2011) Jeon Kyu-Hwan Music Used: Arirang Footsteps - DPRK Patriotic Song No Motherland Without You - DPRK Patriotic Song Event Horizon - The Grey Room Inner/Outer - Lish Grooves archive.org/details/one-hour-of-dprk-north-korean-… 주체는 우리의 승리 (Juche, Our Victory) 위대한 주체사상 만세 (Long Live the Great Juche Idea!) 주체의 기치높이 사회주의 한길로 (Raise the Banner of Juche and Take the Road to Socialism) 주체의 위업에 청춘을 바치리 (We'll Devote Our Youth to the Cause of Juche) 주체의 요구대로 조선은 나아간다 (Korea Advances as Juche Demands) Sources: [1] Jameson, Freidric (1991) Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; Durham, Duke University Press [2] Cummings, Bruce (2021) Korea, A Unique Colony: Last to be Colonized and First to Revolt; Cambridge University Press [3] blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghforumonkorea/research-snap… [4] Suh, Dae-sook, The Korean Communist Movement, 1918-48. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 132 quoted via Cummings, Bruce (2021) Korea, A Unique Colony: Last to be Colonized and First to Revolt; Cambridge University Press [5] Gowans Stephen (2018) Patriots, Traitors, and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom [6] Scher, Mark J. (1973) U.S. policy in Korea 1945–1948: A Neocolonial model takes shape, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars [7] history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v06/… [8] db.history.go.kr/diachronic/level.do?levelId=kn_05… [9] Strong, Anna Louise (1949) In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report [10] koreanwarlegacy.org/chapters/multiple-perspectives… Rest of Source List in the description My Links Patreon: patreon.com/AntonioAlexander “All the videos, songs, images, and graphics used in the video belong to their respective owners and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.” Rest of the sources: [11] Hart-Landsberg, Martin (1997) Korea: Division, Reunification, and U.S. Foreign Policy [12] Abrahams, A.B. (2019) Power and Primacy: A History of Western Intervention in the Asia-Pacific [13] Beal, Tim (2021) The Continuing Korean War in the Murderous History of Bombing [14] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_North_Korea#Inter… [15] Abrahams, A.B. (2023) Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order [16] Cho, Grace (2008) “Introduction: The Fabric of Erasure” in Haunting the Korean Diaspora [17] www.utimes.pitt.edu/archives/?p=3014#:~:text=New%2…. 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