Patriots, Traitors, and Empires is supposedly a very good book on the topic. If you don’t want to read it all the author was interviewed by Breht on Rev Left Radio a while back and gives a good overview. It’s fascinating how Korea parallels Vietnam (one country split in two with an overwhelming level of support for a communist hero who led the resistance against Japanese occupation. US doesn’t want the whole country to go communist even if it’s what the people want so they intervene).
And somewhere in my post history I put up a link to a long tweet thread by Ian Goodrum on the topic that was pretty insightful.
Patriots, Traitors, and Empires is supposedly a very good book on the topic. If you don’t want to read it all the author was interviewed by Breht on Rev Left Radio a while back and gives a good overview. It’s fascinating how Korea parallels Vietnam (one country split in two with an overwhelming level of support for a communist hero who led the resistance against Japanese occupation. US doesn’t want the whole country to go communist even if it’s what the people want so they intervene).
And somewhere in my post history I put up a link to a long tweet thread by Ian Goodrum on the topic that was pretty insightful.