War in Korea would haunt every one of us

By Steve Evans
Updated August 18 2017 - 11:53am, first published 11:40am
Steve Evans as a correspondent in South Korea: "The wailing of pain will not be confined to the peninsula."
Steve Evans as a correspondent in South Korea: "The wailing of pain will not be confined to the peninsula."

Have no illusions. A resumption of the Korean  War - because that’s what it would be - would be a war that made the scale of death and destruction in the Middle East seem minor. All wars are brutal, but the Korean War which never formally ended in 1953 was of a different order of viciousness, both directly in terms of hand-to-hand, eyeball-to-eyeball fighting, often at night in sub-zero temperatures, and remotely, from the sky, as carpet bombing. It was blade against blade in pitch darkness with pulverisation from above.

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