TY - BOOK AU - Kim,Monica TI - The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History SN - 9780691166223 U1 - 951.90424 23 PY - 2019///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - HISTORY / Military / Korean War KW - bisacsh KW - 38th parallel KW - American prisoners of war KW - Cold War KW - Custodian Force of India KW - Francis Dodd KW - Japanese American internment camps KW - Koje Island KW - Korean Communists KW - Korean War KW - Korean peninsula KW - Korean youth KW - POW camp KW - POW camps KW - POW KW - Psychological Strategy Board KW - UNC KW - US Counterintelligence Corps KW - US military KW - US occupation KW - United Nations Command KW - World War II KW - brainwashing KW - decolonization KW - diplomacy KW - enemy alien KW - governance KW - intelligence KW - international humanitarian law KW - interrogation room KW - interrogation rooms KW - interrogation KW - interrogator KW - interrogators KW - kidnapping KW - language KW - military conflict KW - military occupation KW - modern warfare KW - nation-state KW - neutral explanation rooms KW - neutrality KW - political recognition KW - political strategy KW - prisoner of war KW - prisoners of war KW - repatriation KW - rightists KW - sovereignty KW - thirty-eighth parallel KW - warfare N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on Language --; Abbreviations --; Introduction. War and Humanity --; Part I. The Elements of War --; 1. Interrogation --; 2. The Prisoner of War --; 3. The Interrogator --; Part II. Humanity Interrogated --; 4 Koje Island: A Mutiny, or Revolution --; 5. Below the 38th Parallel: Between Barbed Wire and Blood --; 6. On the 38th Parallel: The Third Choice --; 7. Above the 38th Parallel: The US Citizen- POW --; Conclusion: The Diaspora of War --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle-not over land but over human subjectsTraditional 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.Bringing together a vast range of sources that track two generations of people moving between three continents, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War delves into an essential yet overlooked aspect of modern warfare in the twentieth century UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691185040?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691185040 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691185040.jpg ER -