The Koreans and their Enemies
Jon Halliday, 17 December 1992
Korea Old and New: A History
by Carter Eckert, Ki-baik Lee, Young Ick Lew, Michael Robinson and Edward Wagner.
Harvard, 454 pp., £11.95, September 1991,0 9627713 0 9 Show More
by Carter Eckert, Ki-baik Lee, Young Ick Lew, Michael Robinson and Edward Wagner.
Harvard, 454 pp., £11.95, September 1991,
The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World
by Anthony Daniels.
Hutchinson, 202 pp., £16.99, April 1991,9780091741532 Show More
by Anthony Daniels.
Hutchinson, 202 pp., £16.99, April 1991,
“... Over the past year evidence has been emerging that the Japanese kidnapped more than 200,000 young women into sex slavery during their occupation of East Asia. Those so enslaved were termed ‘comfort women’, about 80 per cent of whom were Korean. Some were as young as 12, hauled out of their schools, often under a quota system, and carted off to army barracks and outposts all the way from Manchuria to the South Pacific ... ”
