Korean War: Conclusion

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It's time to say goodbye to this incredible era, and to end this whopper journey we've been on for the past 11+ months. I really can't believe we're here, but we are, and I figured there was never a better time to end this series, than on my birthday, so happy birthday to me!

Our conclusion examines a suitably poignant moment in recent history - the location of a reunion of Korean families, trapped and separated for more than six decades by a war which they never wanted, but which they have been paying for for their entire lives. It is here, I believe, that we should end our story - with a reminder that the greatest losers in the conflict of no winners, was the Korean people themselves.

Thankssss as always for joining me history friends, and make sure you prepare yourselves for the Versailles Anniversary Project, coming on 11 November 2018...

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0:00.0	I'm This is when diplomacy fails. My name is Zach Twomley and you are about to listen to the
0:41.2	concluding episode of the Korean War series.
1:06.8	The losses The loss of freedom, tyranny, abuse, hunger, would all have been easier, if not for the compulsion to call them freedom, justice, the good of the people.
1:12.6	Lies, by their very nature, partial, are revealed as lies when confronted with languages striving for truth, but here all the means of disclosure had been permanently confiscated
1:18.6	by the police.
1:20.6	Poet and literary critic Alexander Watt, writing in his book My Century, published posthumously in 1977.
1:30.3	You see, in the long run of history, winning the Cold War against communism is not the entire goal of mankind, nor even a great part of it.
1:39.3	More important is the economic and political stability of the world and its people.
1:43.3	Unless human well-being continues to be the major goal of the citizens of the world,
1:48.0	the struggle between the United States and the USSR threatens to degenerate
1:52.0	into the age-old game of world power politics.
1:55.0	Power politics, not ideals.
1:57.0	The downtrodden people of the world are sure of it,
1:59.0	and we take as allies cruel and ruthless dictators.
2:02.6	Are we to have a series of world crises until we succeed in reducing most of civilization to radioactive debris?
2:11.1	Historian C. Clyde Mitchell, writing in the International Journal, 1950.
2:24.3	Even in former days, Korea was known as the Hermit Kingdom for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to create a totally isolated and hermetic society, Northern Korea in the years after
2:30.3	1953, the Armistice, would have been the place to start. It was bounded on two sides by the sea, and to the south by the impregnable demilitarized
2:38.8	zone, which divided it from South Korea.
2:41.6	Its northern frontier consisted of a long stretch of China and a short stretch of Siberia.
2:46.2	In other words, its only contiguous neighbors were Mao and Stalin.
2:50.4	Add to that fact that almost every work
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