AD“Where is your eldest son?” he heard someone shout in a North Korean accent. An recounts the story in a new anthology called “Five Boyhood Recollections of the Korean War, 1950-1953.” The Amazon book includes essays from five Washington-area writers and was edited by Yearn Hong Choi. An joined the South Korean army and was sent to the front. Today, South Korea is a modern democracy, a place of glittering skyscrapers and factories that churn out cutting-edge products. He thinks there is a “peace mood” afoot in South Korea that underestimates the ruthlessness of the North.

Source: Washington Post July 27, 2020 19:30 UTC