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How did the Korean War Begin?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

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As the British historian A. J. P. Taylor once remarked, “In the Cold War apparently even the world of scholarship knows no detachment.” This statement applies with particular force to Korea, which became one of the foci of the Cold War after 1945 and turned into a bitter battleground between the supposedly monolithic World Communism and the western alliance after 1950.

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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1972

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