Radio War Nerd EP137—Tim Shorrock on Trump-Kim Summit + Famine As Weapon of War

Guest: Tim Shorrock, journalist& author Recorded June 18, 2018 The War Nerd interviews journalist and Korea expert Tim Shorrock, fresh from the Singapore summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un. Tim is one of the few western journalists who called Korea right all along—in this interview, he recounts what it was like to be among the smug US media elites gathered in Singapore who've been wrong on Korea almost as a matter of principle . . . Tim has previously appeared on Episode 127["The North Korea Peace Freakout"], EP 62["COINdanistas and the South Korea Crisis"] and EP 20["Korean War Recovered History"]. At 57:35 — War Nerd and Ames discuss Famine As a Weapon of War, given the US-Saudi coalition's starvation strategy in Yemen. War Nerd talks about the cold logic of Famine as a war weapon throughout history, and how it was used (and discussed) in Ireland in the 19th c, through the Biafra War in the 1960s . . . Read Tim Shorrock's articleson the Koreas at The Nation here. Buy our genius sound engineer Brendon Anderegg's new album "June"here, and read Pitchfork's reviewof Brendon's album here