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Operation Big Switch and Korean Prison Interrogations

The CD is labeled "Korean War Interrogations 1952-1953." Most of this recording is in Korean making the context of it difficult to understand. Track one is in Korean. Track two is in Korean. Track three is partially in English, explaining that the recording was made in the Yondong Tho (?) Prison just after the Korean War, during Operation Big Switch. The prison was separated into two sides, with about 2000 prisoners on each side. The recording that follows are noises and singing from the prison.

Interview with Paul Edwards On the Status of the Cease Fire in Korea

After President George W. Bush expressed desire for a formal peace in Korea at an APEC Summit in Australia, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation journalist Carol Off interviewed Dr. Paul Edwards about the status of the cease fire in Korea for the program "As it Happens." Edwards is the director of the Center for the Study of the Korean War.