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South Korea's Summer Of Terror
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9 minutes
Released:
Jul 23, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
At the start of the Korean war in 1950, tens of thousands of suspected communist sympathisers were executed by the South Korean military. The regime feared they might support the North Korean invaders. Many of them were political prisoners, who were taken from their cells and shot dead. Mike Lanchin has been hearing from Gaeseong Lee, whose father was a prisoner at Daejeon jail when he was killed.
Photo:Gaeseong Lee as a small child with his parents. Copyright: Gaeseong Lee.
Photo:Gaeseong Lee as a small child with his parents. Copyright: Gaeseong Lee.
Released:
Jul 23, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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