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[PBRstreetgang21]

Oh ok.

Thanks for the update I can finally clear some space on my bookshelf and make way for new and more pro-American texts.

[Captain Corea]

[nicholas_chiasson]

Remember that Korean War Movie? Tae Guk Gi? Didn't it mention the reprisals and killings of Koreans by the South with no mention of it having anything to do with the Americans(in fact the whole movie made no mention of UN forces in K-War). So I think to argue that most koreans are not aware of this, or blame it on the US, is silly.

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

It's baffling how some people can hear that thousands of people died fifty years ago and jump to the conclusion that it's going to become anti-foreigner propaganda.

I don't think the article states that only the Americans are to blame. In fact, I don't think that Koreans would ever admit to the Americans having had that much influence in their country's affairs at the time.

According to their account, the South Koreans alone drove the Japanese out of Korea, and protected their freedom from the North. The Americans played a small role... that way, Koreans don't have to admit the whole war is a result of a single American soldier drawing a straight line across the 38th parallel and saying to some Russians 'you take the top, we'll take the bottom'.

They've even covered up the fact that they were basically under foreign control to the extent that history textbooks teach that Kim Il-Sung was a Japanese sympathizer, when in reality he was popular in the North for using geurilla tactics AGAINST the Japanese... which is why Stalin personally chose him to lead the Soviet-styled Korea.

So this is one example of Korean nationalism working to help protect the reputation of the Americans... even when it shouldn't be in this case. They can't defer the blame for the genocide without admitting that their role in the war or the events that shaped their country today weren't what they've made them out to be.

[PBRstreetgang21]

The suprise in not in North and South killing eachother, the "suprise" not that is should be, being as old as it is--- is that the South Korean and US governments were hunting and killing the very people they were supposed to be protecting.

The rational in the eyes of the US and the government led by Syngman Rhee (and old man who for all intents and purposes had about as much autonomy from the US government as Vichy did from Hitler, no offense to Rhee's Austrian wife there) was that the previous government of South Korea, post Japanese exit and pre-US led elections, was too friendly to left wing sympathizers and communists. Therefore those who would not submit to a "democratic government" that had about as much democracy and autonomy as 1960s Cuba, needed to be "dealt with" so to speak.

[Lekker]

[ESL Milk "Everyday]