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The Forgotten US Forever War in Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Jae-Jung Suh
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Abstract

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The Korean War remains conspicuously absent from assertions by the US that it is done with forever wars, but the war remains a fact of life that Koreans live with every day. It continues in other ways too.

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Research Article
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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 19 , Issue 22 , November 2021 , e1
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Copyright © The Authors 2021

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Notes

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