Eighty Years on, Korean Survivors of WWII Atomic Bombs Still Suffer

The Bombs Still Ticking

Eighty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the trauma of nuclear warfare lingers for thousands of survivors in Japan.

Decades later, Korean survivors of WWII atomic bombs still carry the scars, and the silence

HAPCHEON, Aug 6 — Bae Kyung-mi was five years old when the Americans dropped “Little Boy”, the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.Like thousands of other ethnic Koreans working in the city at the time, her family kept the horror a secret.Many feared the stigma from doing menial work for colonial ruler Japan, and false rumours that radiation sickness was contagious.Bae recalls hearing planes overhead while she was playing at h…

Eighty years on, Korean survivors of WWII atomic bombs still suffer

Bae Kyung-mi was five years old when the Americans dropped "Little Boy", the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

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