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Re-writing the Past/Re-Claiming the Future: Nationalism and the Politics of Anti-Americanism in South Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Sheila Miyoshi Jager
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The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 led to one of history's worst atrocities. Known as the Taejon massacre, an estimated 5000 to 7500 civilian deaths have been attributed to a single incident committed by the North Korean People's Army (NKPA) in late September 1950. The incident, described as “worthy of being recorded in the annals of history along with the Rape of Nanking, the Warsaw Ghetto, and other similar mass exterminations” in the official United States Army report issued at the end of the war, received extensive coverage in the international press which touted it as evidence of North Korean barbarity. (1)

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 7 , July 2005 , e13
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(1) Stewart Lone and Gavan McCormack, Korea Since 1850 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994), pp. 118-131. The authors base their account, in part, on the English Daily Worker reporter Alan Winnington's August 9, 1950 dispatch which was largely ignored by the Western press. Press reports supplement information about the July massacre from Australian military observers.

(2) Hangyorae 21, January 20, 2000, p. 23

(3) Ibid, p. 23

(4) Aidan Foster-Carter, “North Korea-South Korea Relations: A Bumpy Road Ahead, Comparative Connections, Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies. www.csis.org, (October, 2003).

(5) Los Angeles Times, August 20, 2003

(6) Aidan Foster-Carter, “Never Mind the Nukes?” Comparative Connections, (October 2003): 3-4.

(6) Korea Herald, August 11, 2002