A Radical History of the Korean War

Summer Course

The Korean War remains one of the longest U.S. "forever wars" but few people realize it's not over.

A Radical History of the Korean War  

CRES 153, Summer Session Two, July 28 - August 29, 2025 (UC Online - Open to All) 

Online asynchronous lectures + synchronous discussion sections  

Instructor: Christine Hong 

Contact: cjhong@ucsd.edu 

In this five-weeks course, we will examine how the United States, by seizing the Korean War in order to consolidate its global hegemony, created a formidable infrastructure of unfreedom and imperial violence, including the national security state, the military-industrial complex, the Cold War university, and the global empire of bases, all of which persist to this day. Through the lens of people's struggles against fascism and imperialism, we will retrieve from history's ashbin the many forms that anti-imperialist opposition to the war have taken, including the international solidarity actions of Black radicals who in the early Cold War ere denounced U.S. war intervention as imperialist aggression, linking "police action" in Korea to a rising domestic police state. With guest lectures by historians, culture workers, and antiwar organizers, this course enables us to help build a people's archive of the Korean War. 

Enrollment information can be found here. 

FAQs for Summer Sessions can be found here. 

Cost and information about financial aid can be found here. 

For more information, please e-mail Christine Hong at cjhong@uscd.edu. 

Published: Friday, May 9, 2025