The Korean War remembered

Another article caught my attention this morning...

One of the prisoners of war (POW), Kim Jin Soo, recently escaped the North. The 74-year-old POW fought in the Korean War at the age of 17 and was captured by the North Koreans in 1953.

The Korean government admits there are more than 500 POWs in North Korea, but there are no official talks underway between the two Koreas to bring them back home

"It doesn't make sense. In other countries, they are even searching for dead bodies, and Japan is trying to bring home their abducted citizens. We cannot just do nothing," said a South Korean.

A recent survey of about 1,000 middle and high school students showed that 57 per cent of them did not know that the Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950. 51 percent of the respondents did not know that the war broke out with the invasions of the North Koreans.

And as young South Koreans begin to forget the Korean War, many will not understand why Kim struggled for 55 years to try to return to the country that he fought to defend, and the hundreds of POWs who were caught by the North Koreans and are still waiting for their government to come and rescue them
(Extracts from Channelnewsasia)


Kim-a part of history that was forgotten, choose to be forgotten? How does it feel to be a part of history where most or that sole party that you can depend on to save you choose to forget?