Posted by Matt in June 28th, 2008 |
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Revisionists say that World war II was unnecessary. They’re wrong.
Historical scholarship has nevertheless offered various sorts of revisionist interpretation of all this. Niall Ferguson, for one, has proposed looking at the two world wars as a single conflict, punctuated only by a long and ominous armistice. British conservative historians like Alan Clark and John Charmley [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 28th, 2008 |
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For the first time in a decade, a North Korean has defected to South Korea by crossing the heavily armed border dividing the two countries. VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin has more.
South Korean military officials say the North Korean military officer crossed into the South on Sunday.
The officer is being debriefed by South Korean [...]
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