Action Likely in Pacific

Secret Agent Kilsoo Haan, Pearl Harbor and the Creation of North Korea

Author: John Koster

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The story of Kilsoo Haan’s brilliant espionage, first against Japan and then against the Soviet Union - a huge advantage spurned.

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The story of Kilsoo Haan’s brilliant espionage, first against Japan and then against the Soviet Union - a huge advantage spurned.

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Pre-WW2, Kilsoo Haan repeatedly warned the United States about Japanese attacks and accurately supplied every conceivable detail: midget submarines as well as aircraft at Pearl Harbor, giant submarine aircraft carriers on the high seas that almost bombed San Diego with plague germs until Tojo cancelled the air strike, and a joint Chinese-Japanese attack - Operation Ichi-Go - against the American and Chinese Nationalist forces, which drove through Chiang Kai-shek's much larger army. When US political bungling helped to create a Communist North Korea, Haan continued to supply information about Soviet nuclear tests in Siberia, the development of Soviet guided missiles, and the North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea, which led to thousands of American and British casualties. He was ignored. The story of American influence in Korea and dealings with Japan provides a little-known background to the Pacific War and remains a factor today in international politics.

About the Author

John Koster is the author of several books about American history including OPERATION SNOW, the background story of how Stalinist intrigue led to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which led to two documentaries on TV, one American and one Japanese. He is the author of CUSTER SURVIVOR (History Publishing) the story of how one member of George Armstrong Custer’s Seventh Cavalry actually escaped from the initial encirclement at the Little Bighorn. His first book THE ROAD TO WOUNDED KNEE (Bantam) won the New Jersey Sigma Delta Chi Award for Distinguished Public Service and sold over 400,000 copies.