International Journal of

KOREAN STUDIES

ISSN 1091-2932

Volume XXIII, Number 1 · Spring/Summer 2019

Publisher's Pages and Introduction of Contributors

Casualties of War: The Legacy of South Korean Participation in the Vietnam Conflict

1

Christos G. Frentzos

Recollections of the Blue Dragons: Those Incredible Young Men from the Land of the Morning Calm

22

Thomas M. Petri

Partisans, Pilots, PSYOPS, and Prisoners: North Korea’s Vietnam Odyssey

43

James F. Durand

The Relationship between United Nations Command and Japan: 1950 to 2018

71

Michael M. Bosack

North Korean Détente: Peace Prospects on the Korean Peninsula

106

Jonathon Lim

The Origins of the Korean Language: A Linguist’s Perspective

141

J. Marshall Unger

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