Tag Archives: Korean War

Atrocity Monger Hanley Finds a New Subject: Kim Soo-im

Educated at Ewha and fluent in English, Kim Soo-im’s choice of lovers lead to an untimely death, executed for espionage just before the outbreak of the Korean War. She was alleged by her South Korean accusers of having aided her lover, socialist Lee Gang-kook, in escaping to the north and of obtaining classified 1949 [...]

Chinese Admit to Death and Burial of US POW 50 Years Late

Captured by Chinese soldiers in North Korea in December 1950, 18-year-old Army Sgt. Richard G. Desautels, of Shoreham, Vt., was taken to China and shuffled around several POW camps, never accounted for by the Chinese at the end of the Korean War. Other returned POWs reported to Army interrogators that they had seen [...]