Comments on: Truth & Reconciliation Committee Recommends Compensation from the US for War Time Bombings

By: james o clifford

james o clifford — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:42:04 +0000

Does the commission ever investigate North Korean crimes? A good reporter would ask.

By: Matt@occidentalism.o

Matt@occidentalism.o — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:59:12 +0000

Hillary Clinton was right on when she said that Koreans were suffering from “historical amnesia.” I kind of see this as the inevitible result of their myth making. They have been indulged for a long time in their distortion of history, mostly towards the Japanese but lately focusing on the US, so it is really a case of the chickens coming home to roost.

I say withdraw the USFK and let them stew in their own juices. Korea will eventually settle in their traditional role as a satellite of China, so in the end all the money and risk for Korea will be wasted.

By: Benicio974

Benicio974 — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:36:06 +0000

As we know already, it's all part of the chillingly effective campaign to teach the younger generations that the U.S. was the real "aggressor" in the Korean War.

It's like the bullsh*t happy feely story that North American liberals tell kids- "the native Americans were such peaceful happy people until the evil Europeans showed up!". Yeah, right!

Yes, I know it's comparing apples & oranges, but it's the same sort of bullsh*t lie that Koreans- North & South- were one big happy family, living peacefully until the evil white men came.

Sadly though, they've gotten a large part of the population to believe that the U.S. is to blame for all of their misery.

Add to that, if any idiot believes that if the U.S. was stupid enough to actually pay compensation, then all would be forgiven and that would be the end of it, is truly dreaming. That would just be the opening of the floodgates.

Anyway, we don't hear the core Korean government calling for compensation payments and I'm quite sure we never will- at least until some lefty idiot gets back into office.

Time to axe the "truth & reconciliation committee" because it is pure bullsh*t top to bottom!

By: Kalani

Kalani — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:44:22 +0000

When do you make a distinction between enemy held territory with targets of strategic value that happen to have civilians in them? Prior to the Inchon invasion, it was decided to create a diversion to create the impression that the allies were going to land at Kunsan. B-26s from the 3rd BW were sent to take out the train station and railyards at Iri (now Iksan). In doing so a number of civilians were killed. To this day one activist group use this as an example of "crimes" against the Korean people.

BTW they could have forgotten about the feint. It was later discovered that Kim Il Sung had been provided information of the invasion at Inchon beforehand by spies in Japan, but for whatever reason never exploited it.

This same problem comes from "targets of opportunity" — mainly trains or truck convoys. When does a civilian engineer or truck driver pressed into service against their will become military?

Where will compensation stop?

The slickey boy technique was to send a young kid to run in front of trucks to slow them down so others could jump on the rear and rob them. All drivers were instructed to put the pedal to the metal and speed up instead. If they were innocents, whoops. But who cared as most were orphans.

In times of war, all the rules go out the window.

That's why the Truth and Reconcilliation Committee turns my stomach. They are the remains of the Roh administration that are trying to get in the last digs before they are cleaned out like rats infesting the kitchen walls.

Yes, I am a very bitter old man… These are the same guys that awarded "freedom fighter status" and pensions to NORTH KOREANS who fought against the South in the Korean War.

By: lirelou

lirelou — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:33:41 +0000

One other possible cause: With the U.S. air campaign against NORK rail lines and road networks (tunnels, bridges, etc), those servicing such became targets. Local populations were press ganged into repair and transportation crews. The former, obviously working on bypasses, and clearing debris, with the latter toting up to 80 lb cargoes on their A-frames. Nork and Chinese logistics relied upon their own press-ganged versions of the Korea Service Corps. That would have put a fair number of civilians in harms way.