Seoul seeks to silence defector on North Korean role in ‘Gwangju incident’

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Seoul seeks to silence defector on North Korean role in ‘Gwangju incident’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 26, 2021 The leftist government in Seoul has been relentless in its attempts to silence a North Korean defector and author who detailed the North’s role in the 1980 “Gwangju incident” in which at least 165 people were killed and 75 went missing, a report said. Lee Ju-Seong wrote in “Purple […]

40 years after Gwangju bloodbath, discussing North Korea’s role is taboo in once-free South

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40 years after Gwangju bloodbath, discussing North Korea’s role is taboo in once-free South

by WorldTribune Staff, May 29, 2020 Details about what happened in Gwangju, South Korea from May 18 through May 27, 1980, remain elusive four decades later as the nation commemorates a watershed tragedy. It remains a highly-charged subject in which the roles of the governments of the United States and South Korea in suppressing the […]