“Good” and “bad” war – and the struggle of memory against forgetting
The regime that Washington created in the South, the “good” Korea, was set up and run largely by those who had collaborated with Japan and America.
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John Pilger
John Pilger is a documentary filmmaker, scholar and former New Statesman columnist. His work includes the documentaries Year Zero (1979) and Utopia (2013).
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