Korean War

Before Korean War During the Korean War Textbooks Afterwards Personal View

My view point about Korean War is perhaps limited to Korean people but it represent the view of Koreans against the Korean War which are very different compare to foreigner's one.

My grandmother, when she was about my age, escaped from North Korea to South Korea. Only her father, her brother and herself escaped. Neither her mother or her young sister or even her grandmother couldn't because they were to slow to escape. They each other promised to meet again but it didn't kept until now. She doesn't know anything about them, even dead or alive.

If we look back to the causes, this war really broke out because of the attitude of USA and USSR against each other. Our people didn't want our land divided in two, we believed each other. We feel really strange especially my generation. It's same blood, same people. I heard that there was an attack by north Koreans on the day of match between Turkey and Korea. Four soldier of South Korean was dead. North Koreans and South Koreans are like a family? Why they killing each other?

Before I just hated the communism. It was an idea common in Korea which seems like normal. But I had a different education in France in IST, which made me look in different views. The communist succeeded to make people to follow them. Their idea fitted to the condition and that's all.

 

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