Saturday, March 29, 2014

After Sixty Years, Remains of Chinese Soldiers From Korean War Returned Home From South Korea


          Chines soldiers with flags over boxes containing the
 remains of the 437 Chinese dead soldiers
Sang-hun, Choe. "After Six Decades, Chinese Soldiers Killed in South Korea Head Home."The New York Times. The New York Times, 28 Mar. 2014. Web. 29 Mar. 2014.
After 60 years South Korea has returned the remains of 437 Chinese soldiers who fought in the Korean War back to China, showing a sign warming feelings between the two nations. That it took 60 years to return the remains showed that there was a ton of uneasiness and conflict between the two countries. A breakthrough came last June when South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye spent some time in China. As part of her effort to become comfortable and familiar with South Korea she offered to send the remains back to China where they belong. China being North Korea’s biggest and major ally, it looks like South Korea has made closer connections with South Korea than North Korea. The remains sent to China on Friday arrived just ahead of China’s annual “tomb sweeping day,” the day families would visit their loved ones who fought in the war. With these signs of gratitude from South Korea you can understand the lesson of with time old wounds can be healed with forgiveness.

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