INTRODUCTION: JEJU 4.3 (SASAM) AS DEIMPERIALIZING KOREAN WAR HISTORY The anticolonial Swedish writer, Sven Lindqvist, once remarked that to Americans, the Korean War could not but be an unreal war. Flying from Japan to the Korean peninsula,…
Category: Christine Hong
Christine Hong is an assistant professor of transnational Asian American, Korean diaspora, and critical Pacific Rim studies at University of California Santa Cruz. She is a steering committee member of the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea, a coordinating council member of the National Campaign to End the Korean War, and a member of the executive board of the Korea Policy Institute., Hong recently co-wrote “Lurching Towards War: A Post-Mortem on Strategic Patience“
As the latest North Korea crisis unfolded, and Donald Trump swapped campaign plowshares for post-inauguration swords, Americans took to the streets demanding that the President release his tax returns and then marched for science. There…
“And if it does start a war, hopefully people will say, ‘You know what? It was worth it. It was a good movie!’” —Seth Rogen “Wacky dictators sell newspapers, and magazines—for example, the 2003 Newsweek cover depicting Kim…
War by Other Means: The Violence of North Korean Human Rights This essay offers a historicized overview of the consolidation of contemporary human rights as the dominant lingua franca for social justice projects today and…