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Jun 26, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Another tragic anniversary almost passed and gone; 70 years of the Korean War. A war stemming from the U.S. division of a postcolonial Korea because it thought the country couldn't govern itself after Japanese occupation, yielding a north and a south that had never existed before
A war most Americans know nothing about; a Cold War-era conflict that means most Korean Americans who lived through it tell a sanitized version; a war that killed millions of civilians, often in the cruelest ways. Welcome to U.S. warfare, napalm, chemical, carpet-bombing style.