N Korean Nationalist Partisans Remembered

A joint memorial ceremony for 1,005 unknown United Nations guerrillas killed during the Korean War was belatedly held at the Taejon National Cemetery after years of denial and silence on the part of the S Korean government and the Korean War historians. They were among the more than 10,000 Korean partisans killed during the war on battle fields far north of the front lines - deep in the enemy territory. They have not received due respect for or recognition of their patriotism because they were mostly N Korean student nationalists who were against the N Korean Government run by Soviet Koreans AND against the S Korean Government run by pro-Japanese Koreans.

The students and other nationalists were trained and supported by the US 8th Army, the US Air Force, the CIA, and the ASA (NSA). We fought in small groups with funny names such as - Donkeys, Blue Boys, and Big Boys, White Tigers, Dragons and Hamhung Wharangs. We parachuted (Blue Boys), boated in (Donkeys) or walked (line-crossers) into N Korea to our nearly certain capture and death.

As in the case of the Vietnamese partisans captured in N Vietnam and "forgotten" by their US CIA "comrades in arms", our captured comrades were not on the UN list of POW's. We received no death or disability benefits from anyone or any medal from any go vernment. As a matter of fact, we were often shot at by the S Korean troops and police.

Our existence and heroism became known only after the 1995 publication of:

  • DARKMOON by Ed Evanhoe,
  • White Tigers by Col. Malcolm and
  • Eyewitness: A North Korean Remembers by Y S Kim.

    All three authors were actual participants in the guerrilla warfare in Korea.

    Long live the memory of our comrades - wherever their bodies may be!