Korean War #44: Talking & Fighting
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2018
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Episode 44: Talking & Fighting picks up from last time with the Korean peace process, as the allies managed to sit down at last and talk face to face with the communists, at a place called Kaesong. As we’ll discover, getting the communists to sit and talk with them was only half the battle. The Chinese and North Koreans were well equipped to turn even the most genuine peace initiative into a great propaganda victory. When they weren’t applying their own brand of spin to the latest talks, they were talking in public and preparing for more war in private.
Indeed, the first year of peace talks was to be one of immense frustration to the allies, who were made to look like supplicant puppets in the communist propaganda, and then like fools when those same communists took advantage of the lull in hostilities to prepare a defensive line which would, with some small changes, remain unchanged for the next two thirds of the war. Peace initiatives thus had their price, but as the allies and the communists well understood, peace initiatives were the only means by which the Korean War could be ended, and the suffering soldiers be returned home. Dilemmas such as these were a dime a dozen in the wearisome conflict, and Korea was by no means finished with the allies yet.
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“Is There Still Room For Me ‘Neath the Old Apple Tree”, by Albert Campbell and Henry Burr, released in 1916. Available: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Albert_Campbell_and_Henry_Burr/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_01202015/Is_There_Still_Room_for_Me_Neath_the_Old_Apple_Tree_-_Albert_Campbell_and_Henry_Burr
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| 0:00.0 | Hello guys, Zach Twomney here. Before we begin this episode, I just wanted to say a little quick thing about the sound of the audio, more specifically how loud or how quiet the audio is for these episodes. Now, you might know me as someone who's somewhat a perfectionist, but to be honest, I very rarely actually listen to the old episodes back because I feel like there's no point beating myself up about them if they go bad or go well. However, recently when I did listen to the old episodes back because I feel like there's no point beating myself |
| 0:20.8 | up about them if they go bad or go well. However, recently when I did listen, I noticed that the |
| 0:25.7 | audio was way off to the extent that I had to turn it down because parts of it were too loud |
| 0:31.1 | and everything else. It's kind of embarrassing, really. I recently changed to the way I record by, |
| 0:37.1 | well, you don't really need to know how I record, |
| 0:39.0 | but, because it's probably boring, but basically I changed the way I record, and I think that might |
| 0:43.6 | have something to do with why certain parts of it seems so loud that your earphones kind of crackle |
| 0:48.6 | when it gets to that point. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to keep the microphone further |
| 0:52.3 | away from me, and I'm going to turn the actual audio up manually. |
| 0:56.2 | You see, if you don't know what audacity is or what it looks like, then it's kind of hard to describe why this is different. |
| 1:02.4 | But hopefully the sound will be better in the future. |
| 1:05.7 | And I'm sorry it sounds a bit crackily when it gets a bit loud in older episodes. |
| 1:10.5 | Because this is a podcast, obviously |
| 1:12.3 | the second most important thing after the research is that the audio sounds right. If the audio |
| 1:17.4 | is crap, who's going to listen to when diplomacy fails? So please do let me know in the future |
| 1:22.1 | if you think that it doesn't sound good, and at least then I'll know whether or not I have to |
| 1:26.7 | change it. Also, please do let me |
| 1:28.5 | know if you think there's an improvement over previous episodes. Maybe you weren't even aware |
| 1:32.2 | of the fact that it didn't sound quite right. That's reassuring. But maybe you were aware and you |
| 1:37.2 | just didn't want to tell me because you weren't bothered or whatever. Either way, please do let me know |
| 1:41.1 | if you think this sounds like an improvement. And yeah, thanks for listening. |
| 1:45.5 | And I'll be talking to the Korean War, episode 44. |
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