Kilsoo Kenneth Haan (

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: 한길수,

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: 韓吉洙, May 31, 1900 – July 1, 1976) was a Korean Nationalist, intelligence operative, anti-Japanese agitator, and both the source and translator of

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’s contested and controversial book, ''The Three-Power Alliance and a United States-Japanese War'' (English: ''

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'').

Early life

Haan was born in Chang Dan, Korea on May 31, 1900. He was five years old when his family joined the

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as plantation laborers. Despite his father leaving for Korea in 1910, he and his mother remained in Hawaii, where Haan continued his education. He attended the Korean Compound School and the Ka'iulani School until the 8th grade. In August 1920, Haan left Hawaii to spend a year preparing for the ministry at the

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Training School in San Francisco, California. Upon his return, he began his service as a Salvation Army representative on the island of

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. Haan rose through the ranks over the following six years to make Captain. Haan's religious career ostensibly came to an end in 1926 when he married a Korean woman from

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named Stella Yoon and resigned from the Salvation Army, reportedly because his new wife's religious beliefs were in conflict with his service in the Salvation Army. After resigning, the couple returned to Honolulu.

Career

In the 1930s, Haan became involved with the Korean independence movement by joining the

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(KNA) of Hawaii.

Pearl Harbor controversy

On May 5, 1943, Haan appeared before Chairperson

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’s House Immigration Committee on the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Law. He gave testimony that his network of spies in East Asia had discovered evidence of the Japanese government's plan to end the war in China and re-deploy its naval assets to convoy a force of over 100,000 seasoned troops to invade

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, "before Christmas".

Legacy

Haan's personal papers can be found in the

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archives.

In media

''Haan'' (film)

The South Korean spy thriller film ''

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'' was released in 2005 based on Haan's experience as Korea's first notable double agent. The film follows Haan as he learns of Japan's impending attack on

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in 1941 and tries to warn the United States, but is ignored.

Selected publications

Books translated * ''

''. Boston:

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(1942). — An English translation of ''The Three-Power Alliance and a United States-Japanese War'' (in Japanese), by

References

Bibliography

* Caprio, Mark E. (2014)
"The Eagle has Landed: Groping for a Korean Role in the Pacific War."
''

Journal of American-East Asian Relations Journal of American-East Asian Relations (JAEAR), according to its website, is a "peer-reviewed quarterly journal of interdisciplinary historical, cross-cultural, and social science scholarship from all parts of the world," which began publication ...

'', vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 5-33. * Kim, Richard S. (2011).
The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and U.S. Sovereignty, 1905–1945.
' New York:

. . * Koster, John (2019). ''Action Likely in Pacific''. Gloucestershire:

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. .

External links

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Fred E. Cannings Pearl Harbor materials, 1933–1978
— Contains correspondence by Haan and Cannings with U.S. government officials regarding the Pearl Harbor attack and Japanese activities in Korea. Stored at the

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