Bruce Cumings is Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of International History and East Asian Political Economy, at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books, including: KOREA'S PLACE IN THE SUN: A MODERN HISTORY (W.W. Norton, 1997); DIVIDED KOREA: UNITED FUTURE? (Foreign Policy Association, 1995); WAR AND TELEVISION (Verso, 1992); and THE ORIGINS OF THE KOREAN WAR (vol. 1, Princeton, 1981; vol. 2, Princeton, 1990).