Yesterday

Alice Ramsey Completes Her Drive Across America

August 7, 1909. Alice Huyler Ramsey becomes the first woman to drive across the continental United States.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com for more history, daily.See P ... Show More

14m 7s

Aug 6

The First Website

August 6, 1991. British computer programmer Tim Berners-Lee launches a digital information revolution when he uploads the first site to the World Wide Web. This episode originally aired in 2024.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a ... Show More

16m 12s

Aug 5

The Murder of Vice Principal Bian Zhongyun

August 5, 1966. Students at a school in Beijing, China beat a teacher to death, one of the first fatalities of the Cultural Revolution.Support the show! Join Into History for ad-free listening and more.History Daily is a co-production of Airship and Noiser.Go to HistoryDaily.com ... Show More

14m 43s

Jul 2024

173. The Korean War: Dividing the Peninsula

The Korean War was a brutal affair. It is estimated that 3,000,000 people were killed in the conflict that absolutely devastated the Korean Peninsula. And the legacy of it is still with us today; it was over the course of this war that the division between North and South solidif ... Show More

50m 54s

Jul 2024

172. The Birth of North Korea

Whilst we know the Korean Peninsula is split into two quite separate countries, North Korea and South Korea, that has not always been been the case. Korea was an independent, singular nation until the Japanese colonised it at the start of the 20th century. This collapsed after th ... Show More

46m 58s

Oct 2024

The Korean War: everything you wanted to know

On today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, we're covering the Korean War, exploring how the nation came to be divided in two, what the impact of fighting was on the peninsular's civilian population, and how close the clash came to going nuclear. In conversation with Spence ... Show More

39m 47s

Feb 2025

Korea War Games, Trump's Rhetoric on the DPRK, & More w/ Ju-Hyun Park of Nodutdol

In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back our comrade Ju-Hyun Park (whom you will remember from our recent episodes A History of American Imperialism in Korea and Korea Dispatch - Martial Law, Impeachment, and More) to discuss the upcoming US led war games taking plac ... Show More

1h 21m

May 29

The Korean Empire

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Korea's brief but significant period as an empire as it moved from the 500-year-old dynastic Joseon monarchy towards modernity. It was in October 1897 that King Gojong declared himself Emperor, seizing his chance when the once-dominant China lost t ... Show More

47m 40s

Jul 2024

North Korea in Geopolitics: US Threats, Russia’s Alliance and the Palestine Connection

To discuss the recent North Korean treaty with Russia, new threats from the U.S. and the untold history between North Korea and Palestine, Rania Khalek was joined by Ju-Hyun Park, a member of Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, an anti-imperialist organization of Koreans i ... Show More

49m 27s

Sep 2024

E92: South Korea 1987, part 2

Second of a double podcast episode about the South Korean movements of 1987 which overthrew the US-backed military dictatorship and won big improvements for workers. In these episodes we speak with Kim Jin-sook and Hong Seung Ha about their experiences of the June Democratic Stru ... Show More

44m 20s

Aug 2023

Armement : la Corée du Sud à la conquête du marché mondial

2/5 – Deuxième épisode de la série sur la course à l’armement. Pour « La Story », le podcast d’actualité des « Echos », Michèle Warnet et Yann Rousseau dévoilent les ambitions de la Corée du Sud qui se hisse aux premiers rangs des fournisseurs d’armes mondiaux alors que la guerre ... Show More

22m 34s

Dec 2024

La destitution en Corée du Sud - En bref

Mes chers camarades, bien le bonjour !Le samedi 14 décembre 2024, gros séisme politique en Corée du Sud : le président Yoon Suk Yeol est destitué par le Parlement. Seulement 11 jours après sa tentative complètement ratée d’imposer la loi martiale. La politique en Corée du Sud, c’ ... Show More

3m 51s

The Korean War Begins