As the world watches with mounting concern the growing tensions and bellicose rhetoric between the United States and North Korea, one of the most remarkable aspects of the situation is the absence of any public acknowledgement of the underlying reason for North Korean fears—or, as termed by United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley,
State of Fear: How History’s Deadliest Bombing Campaign Created Today’s Crisis in Korea
The firebombing of North Korea’s cities, towns, and villages remains virtually unknown to the general public and unacknowledged in media discussions of the crisis, despite the obvious relevance to North Korea’s pursuit of a nuclear deterrent.
By Ted Nace

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Ted Nace
Ted Nace is founder and director of CoalSwarm. He is the co-founder of computer book publisher Peachpit Press and is the author of Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy (2003, 2005) and Climate Hope: On the Front Lines of the Fight Against Coal (2010). He served as staff director of the Dakota Resource Council and as a columnist for Publish! magazine. He holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree from UC Berkeley.