Korea's firmest friends fade into twilight
(MENAFN - Asia Times) Their shoulders held the sky suspended â A. E. Housman PAJU, SOUTH KOREA â Exactly 70 years ago, Hill 235, overlooking a narrow road in South Korea's Imjin Valley, 35 miles north of Seoul, was a scene of chaos and bloodshed. The ground at the foot of the hill was a mass of wrecked and burnt-out vehicles. Its lower slopes were piled with the bodies of Chinese troops, killed as they advanced into the fire of artillery and massed automatic weapons. And on its summit, a decimated battalion of British troops, cut off from all friendly forces, held out in all-rou...
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