AMPO HANTAI!

A South Korean commission looking into Korean War crimes by the United States has documented 138 separate incidents of US forces killing Korean civilians, according to The New York Times.

But in a flurry of rulings made in the past few days, the commission decided not to seek compensation or criminal charges in about 130 of the cases either for lack of evidence or because it found that the killings were militarily justified. The findings, which have not been formally announced and will end the commission’s work, appear to reflect the desire of the conservative government of President Lee Myung-bak to wrap up the inquiry and to avoid antagonizing the United States.

South Korea’s intelligence service spied on supporters of the former president, a student and labor activist during the 1980s.

So says a series of new documents reported by the Japan Times.

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