Robert Kim

Robert Kim

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Author of Victory in Shanghai: A Korean American Family’s Journey to the CIA and the Army Special Forces

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The #AFIO interview of Arthur and Richard Kim, about their WWII experiences profiled in my book “Victory in Shanghai: A Korean American Family’s Journey to the CIA and the Army Special Forces," is now available as a podcast. Part I on AFIO’s platform: afio.podbean.com/e/afio-now-p...

afio.podbean.comAFIO Now Presents: Robert Kim Part 1 | AFIO PodcastPart one of the AFIO Now interview with author Robert Kim on the Five Kim Brothers. In this episode the author, Robert Kim, and two members of the Kim Brothers family, Art and Richard Kim, talk with A...
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Join me at the Barnes & Noble in Seven Corners, VA on Saturday July 26 at noon for a meet-and-greet and book signing for my latest book, Victory in Shanghai: A Korean American Family's Journey to the CIA and the Army Special Forces. @osssociety.bsky.social stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

stores.barnesandnoble.comVictory in Shanghai Book Signing with Robert S. KimJoin us for an in-store event, Victory in Shanghai Book Signing with Robert S. Kim, on Saturday, July 26, 2025.
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In #WW2, four Kim brothers from Shanghai fought in the #USArmy and as the American resistance in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, winning their family a place in the US. This true story is told for the first time in my newly released book Victory in Shanghai. Links to buy in the comments.

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politics-prose.comVictory in Shanghai: A Korean American Family’s Journey to the CIA and the Army Special ForcesVictory in Shanghai tells the long-hidden story of a family from Korea that struggled for three decades to become Americans and ultimately fought their way to the United States through heroic actions with the U.S. Army during World War II. Among the first families from Korea to migrate to the United States in the early twentieth century, the Kim family was forced into exile in Shanghai in the mid-1920s after a new U.S. immigration law in 1924 excluded Asians. Two decades later, the family’s four sons—raised as Americans in the expatriate community of Shanghai—voluntarily stepped forward during World War II to defend the nation they considered theirs. From both sides of the Pacific, the Kim brothers served in uniform with the U.S. Army and in the underground U.S. intelligence network in Shanghai. At the end of the war the eldest son led the liberation of seven thousand American and Allied civilians held in Japanese internment camps in Shanghai. His actions and the support of the leading generals of the U.S. Army in China led to three special acts of Congress that granted him U.S. citizenship and admitted the entire Kim family into the United States. Four Kim brothers became some of the earliest intelligence officers of the nascent U.S. intelligence community, and three of them ascended to leadership positions in the CIA and the Army Special Forces.Victory in Shanghai tells two intertwined American origin stories: a Korean family’s struggle to become Americans during the World War II era and the contributions of Korean Americans to the creation of modern U.S. intelligence and special operations. Withheld from the public until recently due to the secrecy surrounding their actions during World War II and the Cold War, the history of the Kim family is one of the great stories of coming to America and defending and strengthening it in the process.
Robert Kim
@robertkimauthor.bsky.social

In #WW2, four Kim brothers from Shanghai fought in the #USArmy and as the American resistance in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, winning their family a place in the US. This true story is told for the first time in my newly released book Victory in Shanghai. Links to buy in the comments.

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