Paul,

"AC, we sent our mercenary army into Korea..."

Involvement in Korea was at the behest of the United Nations.

Do you consider the excellent personnel of the Indian Army's 60th Parachute Field Ambulance Unit that served in South Korea to be mercenaries?

It had 627 personnel in all and it treated over 220,000 patients including civilians during the Korean War.

Here's a rough reference:
http://www.wionews.com/world/on-eve-of-inter-korean-summit-indian-armys-forgotten-role-in-korean-war-133024

Dear o sung wu,

I think the number of souls lost at coral was 25 rather than 22 will 11 being killed in the first night. What an intense battle.

I remember when I read the account of fighting just how many weapons of the Australian either misfired or failed completely likely costing lives. Was it a shoddy job from the armourers or was there something else going on?

The other thing that struck me was the amount of Aussie humour even from the gravely wounded and dying.

It certainly is something that should be taught more widely.

//Do you consider the excellent personnel of the Indian Army's 60th Parachute Field Ambulance Unit that served in South Korea to be mercenaries?//
Not if they were unpaid volunteers, or conscripts who had no choice in the matter. But if they were part of a mercenary army that would be a different story.

Issy, for some reason you seem very touchy about the Korean War. It was like other wars, totally avoidable, and really had no worthwhile outcome, considering the price paid in human suffering. Just look at the Korean Peninsular today, more than 60 years later its still in a dangerous unstable condition. Korea was one of the great failures of WWII.

Paul,

"Issy, for some reason you seem very touchy about the Korean War"
Having been in it I dislike lies being told about it.

North Korea invaded South Korea and the UN came to the South's assistance, admittedly the war could have been avoided.
The UN could have done nothing, likewise the USA and it would soon have been over, or North Korea could have refrained from invading.

Or have you been taught that South Korea was the aggressor?

"...had no worthwhile outcome, considering the price paid in human suffering. Just look at the Korean Peninsular today, more than 60 years later its still in a dangerous unstable condition. Korea was one of the great failures of WWII."

and why is it still in a dangerous and unstable condition?
South Korean aggression?

South Korea is a thriving modern society, suggest that you go on Google Earth and have a look at the Korean Peninsular in Night View, the almost totally dark bit at the top is North Korea and the area of blazing lights is the South.

Seen any North Korean cars lately?

paul1405: . Just look at the Korean Peninsular today, more than 60 years later its still in a dangerous unstable condition.

Of course it is, but not because of the South or the Yanks. It's because the North wants to turn the lights out in the South so it looks like the North at night.

I suppose you support o' Kimmy as a great guy who looks after his people with the utmost kindness. Yes, the people of North Korea love him or else they get tied to the barrel of an Artillery piece & fired over the Wall. That's what all good benevolent Communist/Socialist Dictators do. Ay.

I take it that you & your ilk fully approve of Kimmy methods & would like to see them installed into Australian Society. Ay.

Hi there STEELEREDUX...

Thank you for correcting my inaccurate data on casualties. As I mentioned earlier on, my memory is failing rather more rapidly than I'd anticipated. Your comment concerning the proposition that our older school children should receive a more comprehensive instruction of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Including the Korean War; the Malayan Emergency & Indonesian Confrontation; than previously taught. Is most laudable in my view.

Later conflicts & Peace Keeping, missions, are relatively well known among contemporary youth. However not so much is known of the various conflicts involving Australian's between the Korean War up to and including that of South Vietnam?

When I was an In-Patient at the Repat. Hospital, the bloke in the same, four bedded ward with me, was a bit of a mess. He was a Peacekeeper in Rwanda. He regaled me with rambling tales of horror, of what he witnessed in Rwanda. On one occasion, less than 40 to 50 metres from their line, he and his platoon had to watch helplessly while the warring sides evened the score, by hacking to death with machete's dozens of women & children, less than 50 metres from their position. And they were NOT permitted to open fire, due to the UN's partiality?

I couldn't fail to shoot these bloody 'butchers' if it were me, no wonder the poor bugger was a mental mess. This was independently verified by other reliable sources, and written about apparently by the UN Commander, a Canadian Lt General Romeo DALLAIRE, who himself had a major mental breakdown, as a consequence of the atrocities he witnessed in Rwanda.

You don't need to be amongst all manner of ordnance flying about, to end up with PTSD!

Thanks again STEELEREDUX.