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South Korea – Some Hidden Reality Begins to Surface
June 25, 1950 – the official beginning of the Korean War but the real beginning was the clash between the US and the USSR. After the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan waved the white flag to the US and her allies, but the USSR, under Stalin, decided to take over Japan's control of Manchuria and North Korea. President Truman postulated the the two powers – the USA and the USSR split the occupation of Korea drawing a line between the two Koreas at the 38th parallel.
Korea was initially to be re-united but the ideologies of the two conflicting forces made this an impossible task. Events led to there becoming a permanence of separation between the two created parts of Korea because neither the US or the USSR cared to give in to one another. Korea had little choice in the matter.
However, before the first shot was fired, allegedly by the north who was heavily armed by the Soviets and backed by China, atrocities had already taken a terrible tool in South Korea. In November 2008, family survivours met with the US Embassy saying that they wanted an apology for direct and indirect American involvement in the killing of at least 100,000 South Koreans whose bodies were dumped into trenches, abandoned mines or in the sea. These murders began before war erupted in 1950 and after the war had begun.
Records, once deeply buried, have surfaced and been declassified show that American officers were present at one mass killing area and that at least one other American officer sanctioned another mass murder of South Koreans that they had decided may be sympathetic to the north. Any evidence of their possible thoughts is lacking. Hundreds of others were also killed.
The truth of this declassified US information is now being found as Koreans find and dig out the bones of mass graves. They have found 965 victims in 10 sites so far. There are another 168 sites yet to investigate.
In a cobalt mine the searches have dug only about 10 metres and have recover over 100 victims bones but 35 hundred are thought to have been dumped in this mine alone.
At some sites the murderers killed whole families on suspicion of leftest thinking. In one place the murders included 23 children less than 10 years old. Some people who had been forced to work for the occupying North Koreans, when liberated were accused of collaboration with the enemy and, not only they were killed but so was their family including the children. Can you imagine murdering a 7 year old child? That is one of the worst thing a person can do – war or no war.
The big question in this investigation, which should be resolved by 2010, is not if Americans were involved but to what degree. We should also have an investigation into why this type of atrocity seems to be inherent in American forces aggression in all their wars.
RC
Are We To Never Know?
Declassification
in Reverse
The
U.S. Intelligence Community's Secret Historical Document Reclassification
Program
By
Matthew M. Aid
Beginning in the fall of 1999, and continuing unabated for the past seven years, at least six government agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Defence Department, the military services, and the Department of Justice, have been secretly engaged in a wide-ranging historical document reclassification program at the principal National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) research facility at College Park, Maryland, as well as at the Presidential Libraries run by NARA.
Since the reclassification program began, some 9,500 formerly declassified and publicly-available documents totaling more than 55,500 pages have been withdrawn from the open shelves at College Park and reclassified because, according to the U.S. government agencies, they had been improperly and/or inadvertently released.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB179/
