At that time, when South Korea invaded the Vietnamese army, it was like a mercenary of the United States. Why do you say that? The United States provided Korean troops with equipment, training, transportation and logistics, and paid all the expenses of Korean troops stationed in Vietnam (including $8 million paid by Japan). The material rewards received by Korean soldiers stationed in Vietnam were twice the average salary in South Korea at that time. During the ten years when South Korea sent troops to Vietnam, the Korean economy maintained an annual growth rate of about 1%, ranking first in the world at that time. Exports and foreign exchange reserves have also increased by nearly 3 times. It can be seen that South Korea gained great benefits from its participation in the Vietnam War, and its boastful economic take-off was actually war money.
in the Vietnam war, more than 4,96 Korean soldiers were killed and more than 1, were injured. Killed more than 41,45 Vietnamese. The enemy destroyed was ten times the self-loss, and it was once the glorious record boasted by the Korean army.
South Korea's cruelty to ordinary people on the battlefield in Vietnam is quite abnormal:
- People (mostly women, old people and children) are gathered in one place and sprayed with machine guns
- After a civilian family is blocked at home and sprayed, the house is burned down regardless of life and death
- After the child's head is cut off, the limbs are cut off and thrown into the fire
- Women are thrown into the fire. Cut open the pregnant woman's belly to expose the fetus and trample it with military boots
- drive the civilians into the cave and then release the poison gas to kill them
According to the war crime investigation in various areas of central Vietnam on March 19 and 2, 19 66, from January 23 to February 26, 1966, the Korean army killed more than 1,2 civilians in this area alone, and eight families were completely wiped out.
The crimes committed by the Korean army in the Vietnam War are similar to the atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders in China. However, it is understandable that many of the Japanese troops in World War II were Japanese-occupied Koreans at that time. Of course, they are all Japanese now. Moreover, many people in the Korean army at that time were Japanese veterans who participated in the war of aggression against China. The "glorious tradition" of their predecessors has been vividly displayed on the land of Vietnam.
South Korean troops killed civilians so cruelly in Vietnam, but they tried to escape from normal fighting, not to mention facing the guerrillas on the national liberation front of South Vietnam. Even in the search operation in the Vietnam * * * base area, which is not the front line and the enemy is unknown, the killing behavior, regardless of gender, age and age, was justified.