Episode 432 - Korea in the Vietnam War

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Nate, Joe, and Tom discuss the time where, under the auspices of "internationalizing" the Vietnam War, the US paid huge sums for South Korea to deploy troops to combat. On one hand, Park Chung-Hee secured the bag. On the other...there were some war crimes. A lot of them.

SOURCES:

Tae Yang Kwak (Spring–Summer 2003). "The Nixon Doctrine and the Yusin Reforms: American Foreign Policy, the Vietnam War, and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Korea, 1968—1973". The Journal of American-East Asian Relations

Blackburn, Robert M. (1994). Mercenaries and Lyndon Johnson's "more flags": the hiring of Korean, Filipino, and Thai soldiers in the Vietnam War. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland Publishing

Shulimson, Jack (1997). U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Defining Year, 1968

Jang HG. People’s Tribunal on War Crimes by South Korean Troops during the Vietnam War. Asia-Pacific Journal

Armstrong, Charles (2001). Critical Asian Studies: America's Korea, Korea's Vietnam.

https://www.newmandala.org/politics-of-denial-south-korean-war-crimes-in-vietnam/