This was actually left as a comment, but I have decided to bump this up into its own posting:

The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
Charles Robert Jenkins is a former United States Army soldier who lived in North Korea […]

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I recently began reading a book that people have been telling me for quite some time that I really need to read and it is even on the official US Army reading list.  For various reasons I kept passing on reading the book, but now I’m glad I finally decided to read this book.  This […]

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Richardson over at DPRK Studies has a great write up about former US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton’s new book “Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the U.N. and Abroad”.  Here is the money quote from the write up:

First, the timetable of the Feb. 13 agreement is already shredded. President Bush […]

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I picked up the book No True Glory by Bing West last weekend and I just couldn’t put this book down and finished reading it in three days. The book documents in great detail the battle for the Iraqi city of Fallujah from when the American forces first entered the city in 2003, through the […]

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Just finished reading “Island of Fantasy” by Shawn Matthews over at Korea Life. The book starts by exploring Shawn’s humble beginnings in New York state and then the turn of events that brought him to Korea in the first place. The book then explores the complex relationships and situations Shawn found himself in on Goje-do […]

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