[REVIEW] 'Victory in Shanghai' chronicles unsung epic of Korean American family

No more than a month after Japan’s defeat in World War II, a team of 10 men representing every U.S. intelligence organization in China arrived in Japanese-occupied Shanghai to evacuate "the last living remnants of colonialism…and return the city to an independent and free China. "One man stood out from the others for an obvious reason: he was the only Asian among them. His name was Peter Kim," reads a newly published book, "Victory in Shanghai: A Korean American Family’s Journey to the CIA and the Army Special Forces." "No one could have imagined then that eventually Peter Kim’s name would be acclaimed in the halls of the U.S. Congress," the passage continues, "and that his actions in Shanghai in August 1945 would help win his entire family’s admission to the United States [and] that the Kims would become a founding family of modern U.S. intelligence and special operations…” Thus begins one of the most fascinating life stories in Korean American history that has come to my attention, a story recounted in "Victory in Shanghai," for which author Robert S. Kim (no relation toWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times