Korean War hero Paik Sun-yup dies at 99
(WorldNews South Korea)

Gen. Paik Sun-yup Paik Sun-yup, a famous Korean War hero and South Korea`s first four-star general, died Friday at age 99, military officials said. Born in 1920, Paik graduated from a military academy in Manchuria in northeastern China in 1941, and became an officer of the Manchukuo Imperial Army. Manchukuo was a puppet state established by Japan in Manchuria. Korea was under Japanese colonial rule from 1910-45. Upon the outbreak of the...