Abstract In this paper, I offer a detailed examination of the spaces and practices of detainment used by the United States military and its proxies between 1945 and the armistice that produced a so-called ‘end’ of the Korean War in 1953. Avoiding the reductive trappings of the Cold War binary, which positions this ‘long peace’ as a byproduct of two territorial powers struggling for geopolitical control, my chief objective is to explore how the use of carceral infrastructures on the peninsula demonstrates the abundant connections between the brutal imperialism of the Japanese regime, the US military government which ostensibly sought to liberate people from colonial oppression, and the violent police action meant to contain the ‘expansive tendencies’ of the Communists. I first position this paper relative to geographic scholarship on prisons, focusing on the important links between carceral spaces and state border-making practices. Next, I place the border-making capacities of carceral spaces into conversation with the complexities of empire by briefly describing the Korean prison assemblage under Japanese colonial rule. I then argue that key aspects of the Cold War carceral infrastructure overseen by the US in the wake of World War II are protractions of the often-ruthless violence of Japan's colonial prison system. In the paper's final two sections I outline the prison systems of the U.S military occupation of southern Korea and the subsequent landscape of detention during the Korean War. Though frequently overlooked, I demonstrate here that spaces of military detainment are important contact zones where the racial and the imperial collide, offering historical geographers a suite of crucial sites through which to push back against the Cold War's simplified binary rhetoric.

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捕捉被遗忘的战争：冷战韩国的监狱空间和殖民遗产

摘要 在本文中，我详细考察了美国军方及其代理人在 1945 年和 1953 年导致朝鲜战争所谓“结束”的停战期间所使用的拘留空间和做法。冷战二元的特征，将这种“长期和平”定位为两个领土大国为地缘政治控制而斗争的副产品，我的主要目标是探索半岛上监狱基础设施的使用如何展示残酷的帝国主义之间的丰富联系日本政权，表面上寻求将人民从殖民压迫中解放出来的美国军政府，以及旨在遏制共产​​党“扩张倾向”的暴力警察行动。我首先将这篇论文定位于关于监狱的地理研究，重点关注监狱空间与国家边界制定实践之间的重要联系。接下来，我通过简要描述日本殖民统治下的韩国监狱组合，将监狱空间的边界制作能力与帝国的复杂性进行对话。然后我认为，二战结束后由美国监管的冷战监狱基础设施的关键方面是日本殖民监狱系统经常无情的暴力的长期存在。在论文的最后两节中，我概述了美军占领南朝鲜的监狱系统以及随后朝鲜战争期间的拘留情况。虽然经常被忽视，但我在这里证明，军事拘留场所是种族和帝国冲突的重要接触区，