was anyone at the korean war? if so, please write and tell me what happned...?
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ok...im korean so trust me.its when the north koreans(its was just one korea at the time) decided to take over all of korea. china and north korea vs. south korea and u.s.a. russia also tried to take korea there was alot of deaths. in the end korea got seperated because there was some kind of conflict between russia and usa.south korea won in the end.
818101
I think i know what you went through!..I spent 7 years in the Australian army, and did 3 tours to Vietnam!..Where i was then blown up 4 times by the Americans!..{mind you, they didn't discriminate, they blew each other up as well!}..But after 'demob' i found civilian life very difficult to fit back into!..I survived by going to university and getting a degree in Geology!..But i still found it hard to tolerate the odd thinking of civilians, did you notice that you didn't seem to fit in?..I wonder if this was just paranoia or what?..Many Vietvets just didn't handle it at all!..a lot went "bush" many commit ed suicide, others went insane!.Moving from one world into another so suddenly has to have some sort of effect on the unprepared mind, and i bet you were never prepared by the Army for it were you?.
414126
Hey how are you? the  new guy shouted. "Holy cow", the clown replied. I blew up the town as I flew over in my fighter plane and as I went down my payload exploded, you should have saw it the mushroom cloud just grew. Now I am afraid in case what is to follow, the start of a nuclear winter, in April, I may move down under to escape.\n\nall in order I must add
679489
I spent a year in Korea. There were way too many MP's over there and we hated them with a passion.  I was up in 2ID where we weren't allowed to do anything but go to the ville and get drunk.  MP's all over the place out there...just pests.
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I would try the moving pictures branch at the National Archives.  They have all the footage taken by government agencies and newsreels made during the war.\nThe archives also has all correpsondence relating to POW's in its collection.  \nThe historical records of the 1st cavalry records for the Korean War are in the collection of the National Archives too.  I have examined them for the period that you mentioned.  Send me a P/M and I will try and get copies to you.  I have a relative that was in company E, 8th Cavalry and is MIA since 3 September 1950.
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The events leading up to the Korean War were complex and includes the anti-communistic attitudes and United Nations resolutions for that area of the world.  For a very detailed report and more information, check out the Harry S. Truman Museum and Library site listed below:
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hi\nas i recall there weren't any American or Canadian soldiers involved the battle in mainland China except the Aviation Volunteer Group during WWII\nhow did he end up in China??  \ni hope you can be more specific \nafter the eight-year-war in China against the Japes \nChina soon got into civil war between the communist and the nationalist until 1949\nas an important economy site, Shanghai has been destory badly\nafter civil war China then join the Korean War\n\nso I would say that the info about the POW camp during WWII can hardly be found \n\nbut i am now working it
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The US didn't act unilaterally in Korea... there were other countries involved in the fighting and dying there.\n\nThe UK lost 710 KIA\nTurkey 717 KIA\nAstralia 291 KIA\nCanada 309 KIA\nFrance 288 KIA... and there were others as well... even some Ethiopians.\n\nThe Bosian war really does not fit well with the other conflicts mentioned... come to think of it, neither does Somolia.\n\nIn Bosnia we came in really to settle the matter.  The countries had been fighting for a couple of years at that point and when the US came it, it was really signaled the end of the conflict.  When the US entered Korea and Vietnam, it was really just the begining.\n\nThere was no central government in Ethiopia.\n\nThe US did not play the agressor role in Korea... North Korea did.  The US did not play the agressor role in Somalia... there was no governemnt and it was maily a humanitarian mission.
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I think Krazy-Kim is still living in the days of the Cold War. He still thinks the "wicked Imperialists" are gonna get him. I read about NK all the time, books by the defectors and what you say is 100% right (makes me why people gave you thumbs down... my commie-radar is beeping :). You aren't allowed to record anything, not even own a camera or cellphone or computer and if you somehow do have one, it is rigged so someone can see exactly what you're doing with it.\n\nHe is a rotten scumbag and unknown to most he does still have concentration camps, just as bad as the ones of long ago. People starve there and get little or no health care or education (besides learning how great the Dear Leader is).\n\nPS: Like my picture?
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North Korea does not have ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in the US -- yet!!!  Plans to test the first such missile appear to be in go-ahead stage, but until a successful test launch and subsequent successful test launches, they will not have demonstrated a reliable long range missile system.  We also have no credible evidence that North Korea has produced a weapon capable of being mounted on the missile.  We also cannot confirm that North Korea even has any nuclear weapons at all, although we know they have sufficient plutonium for several devices and we suspect they have built several devices.\n\nKim Jong Il postures in a risky game of brinkmanship by permitting this test prep to proceed.  The missile was fueled Sunday, June 18, which is usually an indicator that the launch will go forth.  (Removing fuel is a hazardous procedure, so fueling usually means a go-ahead status.)\n\nIf the test proceeds, it will be Korea's first launch attempt of a long range missile since its unsuccessful 1998 launch of a missile over Japan.  That missile's third stage failed to engage and the missile broke up and fell into the Pacific.  Analysts fear Korea has improved the missile design since then.\n\nIf there is a launch and it is successful, we will enter a new era, and we'll see nuclear brinkmanship not seen since the Cuban missile crisis.\n\nComparisons of Korea and Iraq are not valid, and solutions will vastly differ.  \n\nIn the post-USSR era, the US stands more likely to be targeted with a nuclear weapon or weapons by terrorist organizations.  Such stateless organizations have the ambition to make such attacks, and are unhampered by any fears of retaliation, as there would be no nation-state against whcih to retaliate.\n\nNorth Korea's Kim Jong Il is fettered by his nation, and is well aware of the stakes.  \n\nI suppose, in my weary last words here tonight, I'd say that I don't think that Kim Jong Il will launch a nuclear weapon against the US because our response will not be a tactical air and ground campaign.  It will be a nuclear response.\n\nI'd like to write more, but it's late and I'm tired.  I hope what I did write makes sense and is at least somewhat informative.  I don't pretend to know how this will all play out in the coming months and years.\n\nI'm sorry to be seeing the situation develop, but that seems to be the theme of the post 9-11 world as I know it.
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Do you mean what was the age of men that fought in the Korean war?  My dad was there, he went to Korea when I was 3 and I am 48 now.  He is 75  now.  You figure it out--- \nChinese dude almost killed him, his buddy saved him.  He was naked at the time, or so he said.  He went to Viet Nam twice.  He retired as a  Marine Colonel.
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yes, increased violence in Korea, and i think that Japan had also taken over parts of Korea, which would make the Koreans resentful of the Japanese. Once the Pacific front became active in WWII, the Koreans then had the opportunity to turn against the Japanese living in Korea. I also believe (sorry it's been awhile since i read this book) that the family was in Korea because Mr. Kawashima was in the Japanese military and so they were living on a naval base. This fact, plus their heritage, would make them prime targets for the Koreans. This is the more historical view of the situation, but i hope it helps!
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In the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Korea which ended with Japan's defeat in World War II in 1945, Korea was divided in two, with the Soviet Union controlling the area north of the 38th parallel and the United States in control south of the 38th parallel. The Korean people were not consulted by either power prior to this division. While virtually all Koreans welcomed liberation from Japanese imperial rule, they objected to the reimposition of foreign rule over the peninsula. The Soviets and Americans were unable to agree on the implementation of Joint Trusteeship over Korea. This led in 1948 to the establishment of separate governments in the north and south, each claiming to be the legitimate government of all of Korea.[citation needed]\n\nGrowing tensions between the governments in the north and south and border skirmishes eventually led to a civil war called the Korean War. On June 25, 1950 the (North) Korean People's Army attacked across the 38th Parallel in a move to reunify the peninsula under their political system. The war continued until July 27, 1953, when the United Nations Command, the Korean People's Army, and the Chinese People's Volunteers signed the Korean War Armistice Agreement. The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has separated the North and South ever since\n\nSince its birth in the 1950's. Soviets, Kim Il Song, China major palyers.
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my dad was in Nam. i am old enough to remember the way he was before he went. he was never the same. i also remember how he was treated when he returned. i remember how many American died. a sad day in human history. i hope it never happens again. but knowing human nature it will.
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For the others who wrote asking for details:\n\nAnyone who remembers anything about World War II, or has studied anything about World War II, will understand and remember that during that war the Japanese developed a way to demoralize the American forces. The Japanese psychological warfare experts developed a message they felt would work.\n\nThey gave their psychological warfare script to their famous broadcaster, "Tokyo Rose," and every day she would broadcast their message packaged in different ways, hoping it would have a negative impact on American GI's morale.\n\nWhat was that demoralizing message?\nIt had three main points:\n   1.. Your President is lying to you.\n   2.. This war is illegal.\n   3.. You cannot win the war.\nDoes this sound familiar???  Is it because of:\n   a.. Tokyo Hillary,\n   Tokyo Harry,\n   Tokyo Teddy\n   Tokyo Nancy,\n   Tokyo Durbin,\n   Tokyo Kerry, who have all learned from the former enemies of our country, and have picked up the same message and are broadcasting it on:\n\n   b..  Tokyo CNN,\n    Tokyo ABC,\n    Tokyo CBS,\n    Tokyo NBC?\n\nThe only difference is that they claim to support our troops...before they demoralize them.  Come to think of it...Tokyo Rose told the American Troops she was on their side, also!
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ok mr HO was corect when he sed we could not in, granted we won almost every battle, but lets face it, we did nto know friend from fo, we did not know terain, we where to gung ho on, and we r like the world police, kenndy was killed to stop a war, LBJ revers the plain and decide to lanch the masive war in nam... such a wast, a sad wast....\n\nand u now Y we went to war in nam, for recorecs, he is or was a gr8 and wise person.
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korean war = stalemate.\n\nsome say we won because we kileld alot of the enemy, some say we lost because we didnt finish our goal, some say we tied because there was no ending.\n\nsee.