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"The appellation of the Forgotten War is not accidental; what is commemorated ... in the US serves to sustain imperialist interests. This pattern is not unique to Korea and manifests in discourses about many ongoing sites of liberation struggle. In Palestine, for example, through this lens of selective forgetting and remembering, occupation is framed as 'conflict' and acts of resistance are framed as terrorism"

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From the foreword:
"Anti-communism has commonly manifested itself in racist portrayals of north Korean leaders and government as unstable, irrational, and the Korean people as indoctrinated, mindless zombies. Attempting to turn reality on its head, the DPRK is painted as presenting a danger to the United States’ national security, as if the U.S. was somehow ever the victim."