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Burning on the Taedong: The Schooner That Vanished Everyone
Burning on the Taedong: The Schooner That Vanished Everyone
A drifting merchant schooner burned on the Taedong River in 1866 with every person aboard dead or dying, guns still loaded and no explanation sent to the United States for years. What exactly turned a Boston-owned trading mission into a floating disaster and left three governments disputing the facts?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the schooner’s cargo manifest to the moments it ran aground and the capture of a Korean official, and we ask how a routine trade voyage became an international crisis that…
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