Pilger gives some examples of historical accurate accounts of history and wars from other authors as an introduction to his review of The Korean War: A History by Bruce Cumings (2010).
I read Cumings' earlier two volumes entitled The Origins of the Korean War which I found to be outstanding and a must-read (especially volume 1). I have not read this recent book. It appears to offer an excellent way to understand the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, one of the member nations assigned to the Axis of Evil by George Bush and continues to be considered as a pariah nation by the ruling class and their media. Referring to US bombing campaigns in the northern part of Korea, Cumings writes:
The unhindered machinery of incendiary bombing was visited on the North for three years, yielding a wasteland and a surviving mole people who had learned to love the shelter of caves, mountains, tunnels and redoubts, a subterranean world that became the basis for reconstructing a country and a memento for building a fierce hatred through the ranks of the population.
