The Korean War: The "Unknown War". The Coverup of US War Crimes http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROS20110316&articleId=23742

The Korean War, a.k.a. the "Unknown War," was, in fact, headline news at the time it was being fought(1950-53). Given the Cold War hatreds of the combatants, though, a great deal of the reportage was propaganda, and much of what should have been told was never told. News of the worst atrocities perpetrated against civilians was routinely suppressed and the full story of the horrific suffering of the Korean people---who lost 3-million souls of a total population of 23-million--- has yet to be told in full. Filling in many of the blank spaces is Bruce Cumings, chair of the Department of History at the University of Chicago, whose book "The Korean War"(Modern Library Chronicles) takes an objective look at the conflict. In one review, Publishers Weekly says, "In this devastating work he shows how little the U.S. knew about who it was fighting, why it was fighting, and even how it was fighting...