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In Memoriam to my beloved daughter, Roxanne Shorrock, who passed away on March 17th. Angels have laid her away and I and my famiy and friends are in deep sorrow.

https://timshorrock.com/2024/04/01/in-memoriam-roxanne-shorrock/

In the wake of a new film and the publication in Korean of the Cherokee Files, Hankyoreh has reported on Washington’s shifting perception of Chun Doo Hwan’s 1979 mutiny. The internal coup cau...

https://timshorrock.com/2024/01/08/28-years-on-cherokee-files-still-making-news-in-korea/

On September 11th, I was a panelist with the Korean historian Ingu Hwang for a seminar on South Korea's democracy, past and present, sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action. Professor Hwang wrote...

https://timshorrock.com/2023/09/14/south-koreas-democracy-in-crisis/

One of the most memorable characters in the film "Missing" is Frank Teruggi, who was murdered by the Chilean military in the Santiago Stadium in the days after General Pinochet's coup on Septembe...

https://timshorrock.com/2023/09/11/the-lonesome-death-of-frank-teruggi/

24 hours after Nagasaki, the U.S. divided Korea in half. Bruce Cumings, the leading historian of the Korean War, has called Truman's directive the “first act of containment." In fact, it was th...

https://timshorrock.com/2023/08/09/the-nagasaki-bomb-and-the-division-of-korea/

Many of you have seen Crossings, the film from Deann Borshay Liem about Women Cross DMZ and their historic walk from North to South Korea in the spring of 2015. I was there as a reporter, and pub...

https://timshorrock.com/2023/08/02/crossings-from-the-other-side/

I just spent an exhilarating week with Korea Peace Activists in DC to push for an end to the Korean War after 70 years. To mark the occasion, I've posted an article on my experiences at the DMZ i...

https://timshorrock.com/2023/07/31/memories-of-the-dmz/

The United States has been trying to create a trilateral alliance with Japan and South Korea since the late 1940s. Under President Biden and his "Asia Czar" Kurt Campbell, it has nearly succeeded...

https://timshorrock.com/2023/07/26/70-years-after-the-armistice/

The events of May 18 to May 27, 1980, in photos, from from "Records of the May Uprising," a new book published by the 5.18 Archives in Gwangju. Some are familar, others have never been published ...

https://timshorrock.com/2023/05/18/images-of-gwangju/

NEW: A South Korean truth commission created by law in 2019 is seeking classified U.S. military and intelligence records for its wide-ranging investigation into the Gwangju Uprising of 1980. It a...

https://timshorrock.com/2023/05/15/gwangju-and-the-fort-benning-connection/