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Just a note. Does anyone recall a 1950ish Korean War film with Robert Mitchum as an army colonel in the early days of Korea who calls in an airstrike on a column of refugees being forced at gunpoint to advance on U.S. positions??? I think the flick recently appeared on AMC.

I saw it many years ago on Million Dollar Movie on Ch 9 in NYC so I do not know why the incident under discussion is thought to be so earth shattering. Movie goers knew this stuff happened 45 years ago.BFD

I appreciate your comment about the constitution

However, this article by these english people is all wet. Our troops went over to Korea to fight a horrific war for the sake of people who didn't want to be ruled by the communists. There were tremendous sacrifices paid by people who had no direct interest in that war. These people should always be honored. They did not go over there to kill civilians, that wasn't their motivation, if it happened it was inadvertent.

Very few south koreans will do anything but praise the american efforts of 1950-1953.

It was not american strategy nor tactics to just plain kill civilians in an effort to weaken our enemy. By contrast in ww2 the english did exactly that to the germans. They sent their bombers over the objections of the americans to bomb several german cities strictly for the sake of killing civilians. They killed hundreds of thousands in that effort unjustly I would say. The americans refused to participate in this carnage and said the efforts should all go towards military targets instead. The resolution of this conflict between the americans and the english was that the english bombers would go out and do their mission to their targets which included mostly civilians and the american bombers would go on separate missions and bomb their targets which were military, industrial, infrastructure in nature.

The english did not participate in korean war and should not be commenting at all.

Just another anti-US hit-piece by the socialists in Britain. Their conclusion closely resmble another piece of crap written by the socialist workers party.

One of the witnesses to this "massacre" has been thoroughly discredited. He was like 35 miles away when he claimed to be at No gun-ri.

Civilians are very naive. They expect soldiers to surgically select their targets. Doesn't happen in the real world. Both N.Korean and N. Vietnamese doctrine called for "co-mingling" of civilians with military. Anyone who thinks they can maintain a PRECISE sight picture while being shot it is pretty damned dumb!

All-in-all, civilian casualties in Vietnam were no higher than any other war. I suspect the same true of Korea. The people of S. Korea are driving cars and eating 4K calories a day. The people of N.Korea are eating their young. Whom is better off?