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Joe is joined by the cast of The Worst of All Possible Worlds to talk about the time the US attempted to open Korea with gunboat diplomacy in 1871.

Sources:

Thomas Duvernay. Sinmiyangyo: The 1871 Conflict Between the United States and Korea

Eric Niderost. Military Heritage Magazine. August 2002. Vol 4, no. 1

http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20100407175236/http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/marine_amphib_korea.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20041011181532/http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/sherman.htm

https://hsp.org/blogs/hidden-histories/the-other-korean-war-a-little-known-conflict-in-american-history