🧵Incredible rewrite of South Korean history by the @nytimes that completely eliminates FIVE critical facts. 1) Korea was a Japanese COLONY. 2) Korea was DIVIDED by the US (unilaterally) in 1945 so US forces could accept Japan's surrender in the south and the USSR in the north. 3) The "civil war' (correct) began in the south when communists and anticolonial fighters resisted the (unmentioned) US Army Military Government of Korea.

4) Korea was "cleaved in half" in 1948, when two separate states were founded - first the ROK, then the DPRK.

The US has been hiding its war crimes in Jeju for seven decades. Time for truth! Time for justice! "‘My mission is suppression’: Jeju blood on the hands of the US military government." Keep in mind this was 2 years BEFORE the Korean War officially began. 🧵english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_e… "75 years have passed since the Jeju April 3 Incident started, but identifying the extent of the US government’s responsibility remains an unfinished task."

.@christineahn: "the clear linkage between the anti-Asian violence in the US with its violence dominating Asians with its imperial wars." My story on the prostitution system built around US military bases in Korea by the ROK government and the Pentagon. newrepublic.com/article/155707… One of the shocking things I learned while researching this article was how the US military prostitution system in South Korea was modeled on the Japanese military's "comfort stations" in World War II. newrepublic.com/article/155707…

A terrible and astonishing story, tracking the horrific and deadly weapons that kill innocents in Yemen to General Dynamics and Raytheon. These are evil companies. Kudos to the Times for exposing them. "A Tragedy in Yemen, Made in America." nyti.ms/2zPLG5N The evil & hypocrisy of these companies is amplified by their role in DC think tanks. Take Raytheon, which designed the targeting software on the Yemen bombs in the NYT story. Its board chairman, Stephen Hadley, is chairman of the board of the US Institute of Peace. Mockery. 2/3

Here’s some thoughts on Kim and Trump after covering the US and North Korea for the past 18 months for @thenation. 1. There was a turning point last July when North Korea said in response to US flights of B1-B bombers over Korean skies that it was considering sending a missile toward Guam. Then, when the US let it be known that its next military exercises might be scaled down, NK backed off.

KOREA THREAD. I've been writing about Korea since the late 1970s. But in 2017, due to the election of a progressive president in South Korea and rising tensions between the US and the DPRK, I chronicled an entire year in ways I've never done before. Here's the highlights. I spent the spring in Gwangju, South Korea, where hundreds died in 1980 in an uprising against a US-backed military junta. As Moon Jae-in began his run for president, I wrote about how South Koreans were far more worried about Trump than Kim Jong Un. thenation.com/article/in-sou…