Korea Should Be One Country

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Chapters:
Introduction: 00:00
Korea Under Japanese Imperialism: 04:42
The Creation of South Korea (1945-50): 17:15
The Creation of North Korea (1945-50): 36:47
The Korean War: 52:18
The Republic of Korea - History and Development: 1:24:16
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - History and Development: 2:17:20
Reunification: 3:37:22
Conclusion: 3:55:09

Organisations mentioned:
Nodutdol: https://nodutdol.org/
SPARK: https://www.spark946.org/english/
Korea Peace Appeal: https://en.endthekoreanwar.net/ (not sure if they are currently active but they have a few good articles on their site still up)

Thumbnail design: Eunsoo Choi @sssueblue

Recommended Reading:
Patriots, Traitors, and Empire (2018) Stephen Gowans
Korea: Division, Reunification, and U.S. Foreign Policy (1997) Martin Hart-Landsberg
Blowback Season 3 (Podcast)
https://usoutofkorea.org/toolkit (Good compilation of resources put together by Korean Re-unification activists)
DPRK Explained: https://www.youtube.com/@DPRKExplained
War By Other Means: https://apjjf.org/2014/12/13/Christine-Hong/4100/article
Who Started the Korean War? Three Mosaics (1990) Bruce Cummings
North Korea: Another Country (2003) Bruce Cummings
In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report (1949) Anna Louise Strong
Sanctions of Empire (by Nodutol): https://nodutdol.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Sanctions-of-Empire.pdf
Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order (2023) A.B. Abrahams
https://contents.history.go.kr/photo/1920/1920_period04_01.do?lang=en#
Madeline Pendleton has also put together a pretty good collection of resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fPJjTYGBo4QRuafFkbWTA8imbpr-QP3tD_946Yv_v3A/edit?tab=t.0

Recommended Viewing (relevant Korean cinema and documentaries):
My Brothers and Sisters In the North (2016) Sung Hyung Cho
Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul (2018) David Yun
Their Gwanju, Our Gwanju: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ycdzF1Lso&t=1570s
We Went To North Korea To Get a Haircut: https://youtu.be/2BO83Ig-E8E?si=eysSxZsn1CrLGWvV
The Taxi Driver (2017) Jang Hoon
The President’s Last Bang (2005) Im Sang-soo (This is the movie about Park Chung-Hee I mentioned that was censored by the South Korean government)
JSA: Joint Security Area (2000) Park Chan-Wook
A Single Spark (1995) Park Kwang-su
O, Youth (1995) Jon Jong-Pal
Comrade Kim Goes Flying (2012) Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bonner, Gwang Hun Kim
Default (2018) Choi Kook-hee
Barbie (2011) Lee Sang-woo
Dance Town (2011) Jeon Kyu-Hwan

Music Used:
Arirang
Footsteps - DPRK Patriotic Song
No Motherland Without You - DPRK Patriotic Song
Event Horizon - The Grey Room
Inner/Outer - Lish Grooves
https://archive.org/details/one-hour-of-dprk-north-korean-music-juche-idea
주체는 우리의 승리 (Juche, Our Victory)
위대한 주체사상 만세 (Long Live the Great Juche Idea!)
주체의 기치높이 사회주의 한길로 (Raise the Banner of Juche and Take the Road to Socialism)
주체의 위업에 청춘을 바치리 (We'll Devote Our Youth to the Cause of Juche)
주체의 요구대로 조선은 나아간다 (Korea Advances as Juche Demands)

Sources:
[1] Jameson, Freidric (1991) Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism; Durham, Duke University Press
[2] Cummings, Bruce (2021) Korea, A Unique Colony: Last to be Colonized and First to Revolt; Cambridge University Press
[3] https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghforumonkorea/research-snapshot-the-beginning-of-cooperation-and-solidarity-in-korea-the-cooperative-movement-under-the-japanese-colonial-era/
[4] Suh, Dae-sook, The Korean Communist Movement, 1918-48. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967), p. 132 quoted via Cummings, Bruce (2021) Korea, A Unique Colony: Last to be Colonized and First to Revolt; Cambridge University Press
[5] Gowans Stephen (2018) Patriots, Traitors, and Empires: The Story of Korea’s Struggle for Freedom
[6] Scher, Mark J. (1973) U.S. policy in Korea 1945–1948: A Neocolonial model takes shape, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
[7] https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v06/d776
[8] https://db.history.go.kr/diachronic/level.do?levelId=kn_054_0080_0030
[9] Strong, Anna Louise (1949) In North Korea: First Eye-Witness Report
[10] https://koreanwarlegacy.org/chapters/multiple-perspectives-on-the-korean-war/

Rest of Source List in the description

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