<p><span class="deck">Our <span class="typestyle"> first</span> Korean war, in 1871, was fought to open the Hermit Kingdom to Western trade. But the hermits wanted very much to be left alone </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The half-remembered Korean conflict was full of surprises, and nearly all of them were unpleasant</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A young man’s journey from Brooklyn to the world, from boyhood to the glimmerings of maturity, from peace to war</span></p>
<p>Miscalculations and blunders by world leaders precipitated the Korean War 60 years ago.</p>
