<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I am sorry... I wouldn't dare to talk about these things if I wasn't Korean myself ... My grandfather was a general in North Korea, for a short while though ... My other grandfather was a low-ranking spy for Russian communist regime. A couple of people were arrested based on his 'tips' ... What I am trying to say is that this story is also MY story ...<br>
<br></div>Victoria Ten<br></div>Leiden University <br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:47 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:koreanstudies-request@koreanstudies.com" target="_blank">koreanstudies-request@koreanstudies.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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2. from Sang Joo Kim: Invitation to The Korean Peninsula Issues:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Something just came to mind. When Allied prisoners at a WWII POW camp in Hungnam / Konan were asked about their treatment under the
Japanese, I recall that at least one of them said the Koreans that worked for the Japanese were "even meaner" than the Japanese bosses. If anyone wants a copy of the prisoner's statement, please contact me off list.</div>
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If the petition includes the part Koreans played in war crimes committed by Japanese, as a part of the complex colonizer-colonised relationship, then I definitely would like to sign the petition!<br>
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