The Vietnam War and the Korean War -- Similarities, Part 1 By now you should have studied carefully, and done an assignment on, the Associated Press expose of the massacre of South Korean civilians by American troops in July 1950 at No Gun Ri. If you haven't , go here, and see the relevant homework assignment. Once you have studied this carefully, please study with equal care the following sources: * the Cheju Massacre of 1948; * some selections from Halliday and Cumings, Korea: The Unknown War. Please study them very carefully. Compare them to the No Gun Ri materials you have read, and to the materials on the "Hue Massacre". Also pay attention to the second section in the Halliday and Cumings selections, on "Political Questions in the Civil War," and compare it to what you know about the Vietnam War so far. Write 300 words about similarities you notice between the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Make specific references to all the readings above. Email to me and to your group.