A review by tsharris
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History by Bruce Cumings

4.0

Provocative, comprehensive history of the Koreas. Cumings obviously delights in being an iconoclast, which I think can be a useful corrective, though I think at times he goes a bit too far. I do think it's unfair for people to describe him as an apologist for the DPRK - he does try to understand how Pyongyang sees the world, but he doesn't deny the terrible abuses inflicted on the North Korean people (probably best to say that he doesn't see those abuses as the only things worth knowing about North Korea). Meanwhile, while the anecdotes about his personal experiences in Korea offer something a bit different, they don't always serve the narrative terribly well.