![]() ![]() Had those files alone been the main target of the text, a more traditional way for readers to categorize this study might have been to put it in the category of psychological warfare or information operations during the Korean War. As Kim writes, her ‘story of the war is … interested in the military man as bureaucrat, the interrogator as bureaucrat, and interrogation as a template of bureaucracy’ (20). The core of the text is built out from the evidentiary core of Kim’s analysis of three hundred investigation files from Koje Island and the the US/UN compound on on that island for North Korean and Chinese prisoners, as well as US counterintelligence interrogation files of over one thousand Americans who returned from captivity in North Korea or China. Monica Kim has written an exceptionally vast and detailed transnational history of the Korean War, as seen through the prism of interrogation rooms. ![]() ![]() Monica Kim, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. ![]()
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