The Forgotten War

(a memorial at the DMZ)

The Korean War, precipitated by the splitting of Korea at the thirty-eighth parallel and continuously backed by both China and Russia, is often called the forgotten war. With none of fanfare the Second World War had, this ongoing conflict in a nebulous Asian region appears unglamorous and without a clear objective. Today, many South Koreans fear an East/West Germany scenario should there be a dramatic regime change and no one is willing to punish China's toy dog, North Korea, for anything it has done.


There is nothing forgotten about this.


Here is rare footage of the Korean War.


In other news, many young South Koreans are very stupid:

Although 70 percent of the South Korean public believe North Korea was behind the sinking of the Navy corvette Cheonan, the proportion is only 60 percent among people between the ages of 20 and 40, a survey suggests.

Marking the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security conducted a poll of 1,000 middle and high school students as well as adults about their attitudes to national security and found that 75.4 percent of adults and 73.4 percent of teenagers believed North Korea was responsible for the sinking in March.

The poll shows that younger Koreans, especially those in their 20s, are suspicious of accusations against North Korea. When asked which country they did think attacked the ship, only 64 percent of them said it was North Korea. Some 5.6 percent said the U.S. and some even pointed to Japan (3.3 percent) and China (1.9 percent). Twenty-five percent said they didn't know.

Seriously- what the hell? What are the parents teaching them? What are the teachers telling them? Maybe a better question to pose to these adolescents is what the cell phone coverage is like in North Korea. That should hit them right where they live.