The modern geopolitics of the Korean Peninsula go back at least to the 1950s, when the U.S. intervened in a brutal conflict that some today call “the forgotten war.”

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Kathryn Weathersby, a visiting professor of history at Korea University, about the enduring geopolitical legacy of the Korean War.

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