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Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning best of left podcast in which we shall learn

about the long and storied history of the conflict between the US and North Korea,

including a look back at the Korean War and why it started.

Understanding the role we've played in the region, understanding North Korea's rationale

for their own perspective, a look at our current negotiation tactics driving us toward

war, and a quick look just scratching the surface of what a war with North Korea would

likely entail.

Our clips today come from making contact, the Ezra Klein show, the Tom Hartman program,

keep up with Jonathan K-Part and the Inquiry.

In the US, the war is a footnote buried in our history books, casually referred to as

the Forgotten War.

The Korean War has been brewing since the end of World War II.

After dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, US soldiers divided Korea along

the 38th parallel into North and South and designated the area below the 38th parallel

as an American occupation zone.

When full-scale war broke out in the summer of 1950, Korea became a testing ground for

the US to hone the brutal tactics and technologies that they would later unleash on people around

the world.

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