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  title info:
    title: Interrogation rooms of the Korean War
    sub title: the untold history
  name:
    name part: Kim, Monica
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 435 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Traditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula. But The interrogation rooms of the Korean War presents an entirely new narrative, shifting the perspective from the boundaries of the battlefield to inside the interrogation room. Upending conventional notions of what we think of as geographies of military conflict, Monica Kim demonstrates how the Korean War evolved from a fight over territory to one over human interiority and the individual human subject, forging the template for the U.S. wars of intervention that would predominate during the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond. Kim looks at how, during the armistice negotiations, the United States and their allies proposed a new kind of interrogation room, one in which POWs could exercise their "free will" and choose which country they would go to after the ceasefire. The global controversy that erupted exposed how interrogation rooms had become a flashpoint for the struggles between the ambitions of empire and the demands for decolonization, as the aim of interrogation was to produce subjects who attested to a nation's right to govern. The complex web of interrogators and prisoners, Japanese-American interrogators, Indian military personnel, Korean POWs and interrogators and American POWs, that Kim uncovers contradicts the simple story in U.S. popular memory of "brainwashing" during the Korean War.
  note: Monica Kim.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-kr---
  subject:
    topic: Korean War, 1950-1953
    topic: Prisoners and prisons
  subject:
    topic: Military interrogation
  classification: DS921 .K45 2019
  classification: 951.904/2
  identifier: 9780691166223
  identifier: 0691166226
  identifier: 2018938277
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190129
    record change date: 20190422110314.0
    record identifier: in00004055491