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Originally Posted by Kevin J.
They were as bad as the nazi’s. But at the time the western media didn’t cover Asia in the same lens. My wife is native Korean born in 1956. Both her mother and grandmother would tell terrible stories of growing up under Japanese occupation. The Chinese the rest of Asia all suffered similar atrocities...
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I remember the hatred the ROK’s had for the Japanese. I was over there (1974) when there was an assassination attempt of their President (Pak Chung Hee) and the (very popular) First Lady has killed. Every Korean I talked to blamed the Japanese (& I wondered what the Japanese would stand to gain from that). I’m not judging them though, the Koreans had good reasons for feeling the way they did.
No better ally (or greater enemy) than the ROK Army.