Radio War Nerd EP116—The Imjin Wars

Guest: Richard Kim, historian The wars on the Korean peninsula in the 1590s involving Japan against Korea and China may be the finest war narrative ever. For some reason nobody in the Anglosphere knows about these massive epochal wars in East Asia—Richard Kim joins the War Nerd to correct this, and tell the story of Japanese warlord Hideyoshi's doomed and bloody invasions of Korea, and the incredible story of Korean Admiral Yi Sun-Sin, without question the greatest naval commander of all time. Reading: Samuel Hawley's "The Imjin War" Total time: 2:38:23 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here