Professor at oberlin college. Director of the northeast asia policy studies. She has just come out with a new book called brothers at that war. We are right on the cusp of the armistice, which talks about prisoners of wars. One of the interesting way for you have framed this book is that it is not just about the events of the fighting phase of the war itself. But it also talks a lot about the impacts of the korean war on asian history and World History and even on the contemporary positions of the country. How did you decide that you wanted to write a book on the korean war . Guest in 2007 i was asked if i would consider and i thought that it was a very good project. Because i was interested in the contemporary korean issues and i thought a book about the problems of north korea, i thought that a book about the history of the two countries, beginning with the division in 1945 was particularly active and could serve as a way in which we could understood particular event. So that is sort