THE SHORROCK FILES

For 20+ years I've maintained timshorrock.com as an archive of my nearly 50 years of journalism and two collections of documents: my "Cherokee Files" on the Gwangju Uprising of 1980 and the new research work I am doing for my upcoming book DMZ Empire on t…

APRIL 19, 2023 – Hello Patrons, As you know, I’ve been traveling to Japan and Okinawa since April 9th and will be in South Korea for another week starting tomorrow.

In the wake of a new film and the publication in Korean of the Cherokee Files, Hankyoreh has reported on Washington’s shifting perception of Chun Doo Hwan’s 1979 mutiny.

On September 11th, I was a panelist with the Korean historian Ingu Hwang for a seminar on South Korea's democracy, past and present, sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action.

One of the most memorable characters in the film "Missing" is Frank Teruggi, who was murdered by the Chilean military in the Santiago Stadium in the days after General Pinochet's coup on September 11, 1973.

24 hours after Nagasaki, the U.S. divided Korea in half.

I just spent an exhilarating week with Korea Peace Activists in DC to push for an end to the Korean War after 70 years.

The United States has been trying to create a trilateral alliance with Japan and South Korea since the late 1940s.

The events of May 18 to May 27, 1980, in photos, from from "Records of the May Uprising," a new book published by the 5.18 Archives in Gwangju.