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Ireland’s Korean War Veterans Remembered

Posted by admin on Oct 17, 2014

Nestled between the vast expanse of World War II and the shock and horror of VietNam, the Korean War is sometimes overlooked.

It was a bitter and bloody conflict, which has left political scars on the Korean peninsula which ache to this day. Its legacy is bitter division betwen Seoul and Pyongyang, violent flare-ups between North Korea – ruled by the insane and despotic Kim dynasty – and democratic South Korea, and the infamous ‘DMZ’ which separates the two warring states, strewn with landmines.

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