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What I Saw in Korea by Monica Felton

7/13/2020

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Attached to this post is Monica Felton's text "What I Saw in Korea", a pamphlet that recounts her trip with the Women's International Democratic Federation to North Korea in 1951. It was her goal at the time to visit South Korea also, but this wasn't allowed. As well, as Alan's pamphlet there is much to be gained from this text when considering the relentless bombing campaign waged by the US Air force in Pyongyang and elsewhere. 

"We did not see one place that has not been completely and utterly destroyed. The variation was not in the degree of destruction, but in the different PATTERN that destruction took in different places" (p.5)
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There is also much on war crimes in the North in places like Anak and Sincheon, the last of which is the site of a controversial museum in modern day North Korea. 

"We were told that in the province of Whang-Hai alone 120,000 people had been killed by the occupying armies, and we saw for ourselves how many of these people had met their deaths " (p.8).
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