A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953 that has long been overshadowed by World War II, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. But as Bruce Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight that still haunts contemporary events. And in a very real way, although its true roots and repercussions continue to be either misun
Smiling and saluting, North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong-un, has reviewed a parade of thousands of soldiers who vowed to protect him with their lives as the communist country commemorated the 70th birthday of his late father, Kim Jong-il. Kim Jong-un, wearing a dark Mao-style suit and a solemn expression, bowed deeply before a large portrait of his smiling father in Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, the capital, on Thursday. Hundreds of senior officials, military leaders and citizens followed to pay their respects. Outside the palace, a large crowd of North Korean soldiers lined up in neat rows, listening to speeches praising the Kim family. Later Kim Jong-un and other officials watched as soldiers marched by, followed by military jeeps and lorries carrying artillery guns and rocket launchers. Fireworks exploded, military music boomed and people waved artificial pink and red flowers. In the months since Kim Jong-il died, portraits and sculptures praising Kim Jong-un as a wise and brave leader have sprung up across North Korea. This week there has been no shortage of tributes, with Kim Jong-il’s birthday officially designated as Day of the Shining Star, Al Jazeera’s Florence Looi reports. He has also been posthumously elevated to the honorary post of Generalissimo, only the second person in the country to be given that title.
When the North Korean army invaded South Korea in June 1950, H. K. Shin was a sixteen-year-old high-school student in Chinju, about ninety miles west of the port city of Pusan. The son of a poor civil servant, Shin had grown up in a traditional Korean household in a small agricultural town about fifty miles away. The invasion of a country still reeling from decades of Japanese occupation and intense post-World War II political turmoil created a national disaster. Shin's school was closed, and he
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*Creator’s Note: THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION. Any resemblance of people and/or a person’s name, either living or dead, is pure coincidence. This film or series is in the intention on showing the world a parallel world of the 1950s-1980s; a “What if…” theory. This is not intended to insult the following countries: America, Russia (Former Soviet Union), Korea, China, Vietnam, and Japan. This is pure fiction. This is also not to insult anyone involved in conflicts where one went beyond the call of duty and made the ultimate sacrifice. This film or series is not to be a Pro-Communist showing. This work is fiction. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use (THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS) Plot: Set in a Parallel Time: 1945 – Nazi Germany Surrenders; The Soviet Union takes Berlin. America uses Atomic Bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ending the Pacific War. Occupation of Japan Begins 1950 – Korean War Begins 1952 – Occupation of Japan Ends 1953 – Korean War Ends in a Cease Fire ————————————– 1954 — Demilitarized Zones Created for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Areas to stop the spread of radiation 1955 – Communist Colonization in Japan Begins 1957 – Socialist …
A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored
