But what struck Ned Hagerman as strange, and struck Steve Endicott as strange—and what strikes me as strange—is that this document, written during a horrendous war that had killed tens of thousands of American soldiers (and millions of Korean civilians and hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Korean soldiers) makes almost no mention of Korea. … One has to suspect that the paragraphs here and there that mention Korea—and China and Russia and wartime Japan—have been whited out.

Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Sec…, loc. 167