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Article: SOUTH KOREA CAUGHT IN GENERATIONAL BATTLE.(Perspective)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 10, 1986
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Byline: Ronald E. Yates
After South Korean riot police fired tear gas into a crowd of several thousand opposition activists gathered outside Seoul's Myongdong Roman Catholic Cathedral last month, Kim Tong Hyu sat down to write a letter to his grandson, a student at an American university.
"What is happening in Korea is some form of insanity," the 62-year-old Korean War veteran wrote. "To hear Korean people shouting for the Americans to go home seems impossible - especially since it was just 33 years ago that the Americans were helping us drive the North Korean and Chinese Communists out. It is difficult for me to look upon the Americans I once fought ...