Re: ROK Army

[Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>]

Don,

Well said.  What John2 is giving the list, verbatim in many instances, is 
the history of the Korean War as taught in North Korea.  A good example was 
in his latest post,

"If Uncle Sam did not provide any economic/military support
to Rhee, it would not have been even necessary for N.K.s to come down."

In other words what he is saying it is was "necessary" for North Korea to 
liberate the Korean people from the Dastardly Rhee and Americans so they 
invaded.  Right out the text books.  The mere fact that this flies in the 
face of their claim South Korea attacked North Korea and that is the reason 
they counterattacked" is beside the point. <g>

Another small point it the Taejon Massacre.   I guess he doesn't know that 
a team of UN forensics experts from non-combatant countries examined that 
site and determined that most of those buried in the mass grave died 
between late July and early September 1950 -- when this area was under NK 
control. And that most were executed with Soviet-made weapons.  The UN also 
has several hundred affidavits from people in the area taken shortly after 
UN forces retook the area, all saying the NK's carried daily 
executions.  The top layer of bodies included South Korean and American 
POW's.  These documents identify many of the shooters and units involved.

Ed

At 06:16 PM 2/25/2002 -1000, you wrote:

>If Rhee had been replaced by any other government in the South,
>the North still would have invaded and destroyed the South,
>unless the South submitted or surrendered.  If the South
>had made no responses to the North's attacks across the
>border, the North still would have invaded.  Rhee and the
>South faced a deadly, uncompromising, genocidal enemy, and the
>South attempted to defend themselves, sometimes in non-
>democratic ways.
>
>John2, one problem is that the Kim Il-song dynasty are the
>biggest murderers in all of Korean history, yet you choose
>instead to attack those who defended themselves against
>the tyrany and the genocidal murderers.  Some might see
>your behavior as slavish.
>
>Another problem is that the mass-murderers are still in
>power in Pyongyang.  Are you still frightened of them?
>
>Don

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