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.