- How can C.J. say in "Han", "This young man's asking for freedom. It's what this country was based on. Everyone's from somewhere else, somewhere less free."?
- The statement although one of patriotism that may be true of a number of immigrants to the U.S. leaves out the Africans who were brought to this country in chains to be a lot less free than they had been before. Also leaves out the Native Americans who were more free here before all the immigrants from Europe arrived. The statement is insensitive and narrow in scope and one wonders if anyone at the production company noticed how the statement left out large segments of the American public.
- Was Leo right when he says in "An Khe", "We're still at war with North Korea. We've never signed an armistice"?
- He was right when he said "We're still at war with North Korea" but wrong when he said, "We've never signed an armistice." The U.S. signed an armistice but never signed a "peace treaty" which is what puts us still at war.
- Veterans of Foreign Wars website: "On July 27, 1953, the United States, North Korea and China signed an armistice to end the Korean War. The war, which began June 25, 1950, and ended with the armistice agreement, failed to bring about a permanent peace. During that 37-month period more than 54,000 Americans died; 33,651 were killed in action. There were 103,000 Americans wounded, 8,177 missing in action and 7,000 prisoners of war."
- AP, Feb. 18, 2003: "The 1950-53 Korean War ended with the armistice, not a peace treaty, leaving the Koreas technically in a state of war. A North Korean withdrawal from the armistice would greatly increase tensions and uncertainty along the world's most heavily armed border."
- North and South Korea are still technically at war because the Korean War ended without a peace treaty. Their border is the world's most heavily armed with two million battle-ready troops deployed on both sides.
Oh, and North Korea is officially: "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". And South Korea is: "Republic of Korea".
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