No Gun Ri Massacre is the most publically known and acknowledged war crime done by the US during the Korean War. The Intercept has a good article detailing some of the other war crimes the US and US proxies committed during the Korean War. It's one of the reasons communism has taken such a bunker mentality in DPRK, it was essentially Come and See but instead of the Nazi army it was Americans (although we shouldn't discount the rest of the West also fighting alongside the US) invading and bombing... at the end there wasn't a peace treaty either. Just a 70 year old armistice and the enemy eternally building up forces in South Korea.
I haven't heard about this koreanitis thing before. A google search for it only reveals @okdupuy on Twitter.
White phosphorus was used extensively by the American government during the Korean War (closest source I can find quickly), they had considered mixing into napalm as well and napalm was used extensively in the Korean War - napalm requires an igniting agent and phosphorus was used during these times and later. I could see napalm being dumped on civilian targets and then just large swathes of white phosphorus. Soldiers probably had repeat exposures to phosphorus.
Phosphorus does glow (it's what glowing paint used to use) and was known to infiltrate human bones of workers that breathed it and worked with it. I haven't heard of glowing graveyards, either, but considering the extent of American bombing and incendiary usage in the Korean War I could see it being a real thing during the course of the war. They almost certainly would have exhausted their chemiluminescence shortly after the armistice.
You'd have to dig through some academic work to find definitive evidence and I doubt that American or UK academic work would have much to say about Western war crimes during the Korean War. It is truly the Forgotten War. The only people that might've maintained official records and works would've been the Soviets, DPRK and PRC and I don't think any of them have readily available works in English.
Description of what phosphorus does to bones, Graphic.
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Symptoms would start off with tooth ache, then the teeth would fall out. The face would swell up and abscesses along the jaw would ooze the most foul-smelling pus. Holes would open up in the face along the jaw line, through which could be seen the dead bone underneath. Sometimes the bone glowed in the dark from the accumulated phosphorus.
No Gun Ri Massacre is the most publically known and acknowledged war crime done by the US during the Korean War. The Intercept has a good article detailing some of the other war crimes the US and US proxies committed during the Korean War. It's one of the reasons communism has taken such a bunker mentality in DPRK, it was essentially Come and See but instead of the Nazi army it was Americans (although we shouldn't discount the rest of the West also fighting alongside the US) invading and bombing... at the end there wasn't a peace treaty either. Just a 70 year old armistice and the enemy eternally building up forces in South Korea.
I haven't heard about this koreanitis thing before. A google search for it only reveals @okdupuy on Twitter.
Yeah, I’ve heard of No Gun Ri, I was more talking about the letter and the glowing ground.
White phosphorus was used extensively by the American government during the Korean War (closest source I can find quickly), they had considered mixing into napalm as well and napalm was used extensively in the Korean War - napalm requires an igniting agent and phosphorus was used during these times and later. I could see napalm being dumped on civilian targets and then just large swathes of white phosphorus. Soldiers probably had repeat exposures to phosphorus.
Phosphorus does glow (it's what glowing paint used to use) and was known to infiltrate human bones of workers that breathed it and worked with it. I haven't heard of glowing graveyards, either, but considering the extent of American bombing and incendiary usage in the Korean War I could see it being a real thing during the course of the war. They almost certainly would have exhausted their chemiluminescence shortly after the armistice.
You'd have to dig through some academic work to find definitive evidence and I doubt that American or UK academic work would have much to say about Western war crimes during the Korean War. It is truly the Forgotten War. The only people that might've maintained official records and works would've been the Soviets, DPRK and PRC and I don't think any of them have readily available works in English.
Description of what phosphorus does to bones, Graphic.
spoiler
Dude, fuck that noise.