South Korea trained about 13,000 commandos to infiltrate into communist North Korea over a four-decade period, Yonhap news agency said on Sunday, quoting a military information agency. Of the 13,000 or so agents, some 7,800 had been killed or were missing and 200 were wounded between 1951 and 1994, the Defence Information Command said in a report submitted to a lawmaker. Hundreds of former commandos, who say they were trained to infiltrate into North Korea, held violent protests last year demanding government compensation and recognition. The protesters said they were part of a unit that had existed since the 1950-53 Korean War. The South Korean government has yet to officially acknowledge the existence of the infiltration teams. The two Koreas remain in a technical state of war because the Korean War ended in an armed truce that was never replaced by a peace treaty.
| 7800 killed or missing out of 13,000? You've got to respect men that are willing to take on that kind of odds. |
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