The Korean War

RTE2 +1

8:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Sunday 30 November

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Part one of two. Shedding new light on one of the most perilous episodes in post-war history, examining how and why its legacy - a tense stalemate - continues to this day. Beginning with 35 years of brutal Japanese occupation, a sudden and arbitrary division of the 1,000 year-old nation in 1945, followed by three more years of occupation by the USSR in the North and the US in the South