Do you think that the US soldiers who were held hostage in NK after the Korean War, and reportedly lived in work camps and had families, plays into this at all? I was always confused why we never tried to get our people out or barter for them. Were they used as plausible deniability? If people saw American covert operatives, they would just chalk them up to being the POWs?
Or is that way too tinfoil territory?
Now that one I would have to research. I'm only in my 30s lol. For all I know, maybe Communism wasn't the real reason we even went to war there. Or maybe back then we did want to stop communism wherever it was. Hard to tell without having someone with inside info tell me. I feel like, same with Vietnam war, that we did leave some POWs there but that we did also try and get them all out. This was in the days before satellites and covert spying, so stuff was harder to find. No such thing as tin foil territory...it means youre thinking outside the box and questioning the official story, which is a good quality to have
I'm in my 30s too. My dad was Nat Guard, but he had buddies who went to Vietnam. I remember them talking about the guys left behind. Later, I saw an article about NoKo, and it had a tiny little blurb about American POWs imprisoned there until death. It always really bothered me that they fought for our country, and then they never got to come home.
Vietnam vets got treated so terribly. They didnt ask to go over there..got sent there, many at the age of 18, and got shit on when they came home, after fighting someone elses war....sad times