Did any US soldiers switch sides in the Vietnam and Korean wars ???

[Red Future]

Ive always wondered about this ? Did it ever actually happen ?,and if so it must have have been a rare event.

[¿Que?]

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Interesting story.

[PhoenixAsh]

No...it happened. In Vietnam definately on a somewhat "larger" scale than Korea.

Mostly the North targetted black soldiers specifically because of the racial discrimination in the US for conversion tactics...and with the war dragging on and on a lot of soldiers were getting really desillusioned with the war and the home coming was no picknick either.

THere are some books on the subject though...had a few. THe are mostly in boxes somewhere.

[Red Future]

No...it happened. In Vietnam definately on a somewhat "larger" scale than Korea.

Mostly the North targetted black soldiers because of the racial discrimination in the US for conversion tactics and with the war dragging on and on a lot of soldiers were getting really desillusioned with the war and the home coming was no picknick either.

THere are some books on the subject though...had a few. THe are mostly in boxes somewhere.

I read about this Angolan revolutionary who fought with the Vietcong, Afro American GIs thought he had a devil like ability to convert them to communism!!!!:lol:

[wunderbar]

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Interesting story.

Dresnok is a US soldier who defected to North Korea, but he didn't do so during the Korean War. There's 21 known US Soldiers (and one British solider) who were POW's who chose not to return to the United States after the Korean War, but they were all sent to China where some of them spent the rest of their lives, and others eventually went back to the US or elsewhere to live.

This article goes over the defectors, and there's also info on the six US soldiers who defected to North Korea later on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_and_British_defectors_in_the_Kore an_War

Also, she wasn't a soldier, but Seoul City Sue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_City_Sue) is an American who defected to North Korea during the Korean War.

[Princess Luna]

I read about a Black American soldier who defected to China during the Korean War , later during the Vietnam war he would brodcast radio messages aimed at african-american solders saying stuff like

You are supposedly fighting for the freedom of the Vietnamese, but what kind of freedom do you have at home, sitting in the back of the bus, being barred from restaurants, stores and certain neighborhoods, and being denied the right to vote. ... Go home and fight for equality in America.
sadly because of the Cultural Revolution he was forced to return to the U.S. were he opened a Chinese restaurant and wrote a book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Dream:_The_Life_of_an_African_American _Soldier_and_POW_Who_Spent_Twelve_Years_in_Communi st_China)