More than 26,000 Canadians were deployed to South Korea after it was invaded by North Korea in 1950. More followed to help with peacekeeping.
Quite a few of those notes from South Koreans have arrived lately at the Korea Veterans Association, where Black is president of an Ottawa chapter, as the 70th anniversary of the armistice in that conflict approached.More than 26,000 Canadian Armed Forces were deployed to assist South Korea after it was invaded by North Korea in 1950 and 7,000 more followed to help with peacekeeping after the armistice was signed on July 27, 1953.
Black was deployed to South Korea in 1954, about six months after the armistice was signed. The war — which is still technically ongoing — had devastated the country, he recalls. Three days after crossing the 38th parallel — which divided the Korean Peninsula into two countries after the Second World War — the invading army seized control of the South Korean capital of Seoul.
The bloody conflict, which lasted for three years, reduced Korean cities to rubble and took millions of lives, according to some estimates. While in the military, Choi says he heard stories of the Kapyong Valley battle during the war when Canadian forces, despite being outnumbered and outgunned, averted a massive attack by thousands of enemy soldiers.
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