Chosin: The epic Korean War battle Hollywood overlooked

Editor’s note: Seoul-based contributor Andrew Salmon is a author of Korean War histories “To a Last Round” and “Scorched Earth, Black Snow.”

Seoul (CNN) — North Korea’s subterraneous chief exam site, Punggye-ri, is set amid turf suitable for a purpose: The mountainous, northeastern range of Hamgyong, that borders China and Siberia, is one of a many inhospitable winter landscapes in Asia.

But this grim, ominous province, that is also home to a scandalous Yodok labor camp, seized a courtesy of a wider universe half a century before Pyongyang’s chief tests and claims of tellurian rights abuses done headlines.

Hamgyong witnessed arguably a many harrowing conflict fought by U.S. or British infantry given World War II, a lost epic that offers each part for the

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