Hello, you're very welcome to Long Reads, a Jacobin podcast going at every two weeks where

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In the next few weeks we'll be covering topics like the Arab uprisings and the history

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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Korean War, an immensely destructive conflict,

whose scars both physical and psychological are still very much in evidence in the two

Korean states today.

It was the first great confrontation of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union,

and it was also the first time, and to date, the last time, that troops from Communist

China and the US have faced each other directly on the battlefield.

Yet compared with Vietnam, Korea has not lingered in popular memory to the same extent.

In fact, it's often been referred to as the forgotten war.

Own Miller is an historian of modern Korea who teaches at Soaz in London.

I began by asking him if he could summarize the human cost of the war and explore the

question of why it has been forgotten.

Right, yeah, so to deal with the first question about the human cost of the war, I mean

it was really huge when you consider this as a relatively small country, a small geographically

relatively small in terms of population, and yet it costs a huge number of lives, at least

as many non-competents died as soldiers.

Possibly around 2 million there has been no definitive accounting of the numbers of

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