On Wednesday, February 23, 2000 at 15:32:07 (-0800) Brad De Long writes:
>>On Monday, February 14, 2000 at 12:50:11 (-0800) Brad De Long writes:
>>>>
>>>>CB: The U.S. imperialists carried out a war circa 1950 and still
>>>>occupy the Southern part of the country. The U.S. still has 30,000
>>>>troops and nuclear weapons there.
>>>
>>>I thought that Bruce Cumings's claim that South Korean dictator
>>>Syngman Rhee started the 1950-1953 Korean War had collapsed when the
>>>flow of Cold War-era documents out of Moscow began?
>>
>>Brad, just a small favor: could you find us a quote directly from
>>Cumings's work where he claims "Syngman Rhee started the 1950-1953
>>Korean War"? I thought that he was much more circumspect than that.
>
>Hmmm... How about "The possibility that the South opened the fighting
>on Ongjin, with an eye to seizing Haeju, cannot be discounted..."
>_Korea: The Unknown War_, p. 74?
So what you are saying is that Cumings did not say what you said he
did. Thank you for clearing that up.
Bill
