The Korean War

PBS America (Freeview)

1:00 PM to 2:10 PM

Wednesday 30 October

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Shedding new light on one of the most perilous episodes in post-war history, examining how and why its legacy - a tense stalemate - continues to this day. Beginning with 35 years of brutal Japanese occupation, a sudden and arbitrary division of the 1000 year-old nation in 1945, followed by three more years of occupation by the U.S.S.R. in the North and the U.S. in the South. Part one of two