... Coda: A Conversation with Kim Dong-­Choon Henry Em, Christine Hong, and Kim Dong-­Choon As a standing commissioner of South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission from December 2005 to October 2009, and as a historical soci- ologist...

..., precondition for achieving reconciliation. Kim Dong-­choon, the former chair of South Korea’s Truth and Reconcili- ation Commission (TRC), has summarized this relationship succinctly in setting out the agenda for the Korean TRC: “By verifying the truth...

... and realities of war violence. This special issue closes with an illuminating conversation with Kim Dong-­Choon, a major historian of the Korean War and a former standing commissioner of South Korea’s government-­sponsored Truth and Reconcili...

... of “truth and reconciliation” and have organized both official and unoffi- cial commissions of inquiry into “past crimes.” My direct participation in Korean activists’ and academics’ forums addressing questions of truth and reconciliation enabled me...

... Kim Dong-­Choon is professor of sociology and director of the Democracy Institute at SungKongHoe University in Seoul, South Korea as well as a former standing commissioner of South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Published in 2013, his...

... was invested in utilizing the state of emergency in order to assert sovereign power. Suh Hee-­Kyung, a chief investigator for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea, notes the continuity between the pre- ­and post-­1948 intelligence...

... in the South continued to suppress the historical realities related to civilian Koh The Place- ness of the DMZ 683 massacre during the war until the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commis- sion in 2005 (Truth and Reconciliation Commission 2009: 509). References Augé, Marc. 1995. Non- Places...

... In the meanwhile, a battery of words was being refined in the course of more difficult reconciliations with Taiwan, Korea, and China: “regret” positions 5: 1 Spring 1997 12 (itan)for “unfortunate events” (fu...

...- ing, education, and land. Other nonmonetary forms of reparation pay- ments include the following: (a) verification of the facts and full, public disclosure of the truth; (b) public acknowledgment of responsibility...

... through the creation of memorials and a museum and library dedicated to their memory and consider, in consultation with the survivors, the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission; (6) sponsor educational initiatives, including meaningful...

... of the violent and illegitimate state.47 The new Korea envisioned by Kim Dae-­Jung would have new dramatis personae. Under Kim’s watch, Lee Moo Young was appointed commissioner general of the National Police Agency, who declared he would “ ‘recreate...

... and North Korean defector during a historic moment of thawed intra-­Korean engagement. Strikingly more at home with the Bush hard line than the “appeasement” of South Korea in which “too many people . . . have turned a blind eye to the truth about...

... Korea, and lessons learned during Cold War campaigns in Southeast Asia. Connecting US foreign policies in the Far East to the continued occupation of the Middle East, Bush recapitulated past and present conservative argu- ments about “winning...

... was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”112 Some analysts see the 2008 protests in Tibet as an attempt at another of the “color revolutions” in which NED has played a role.113 The International Campaign for Tibet’s 2005 “Light of Truth...