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No Gun Ri
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English
Nogeun-ri
No Gun Ri Massacre
Alternative forms
en Nogeun-ri Nogun-ri Nogeun Ri Nogun Ri
en Nogeun Village No Gun Village Nogun Village
Etymology
From en ko ^노근리(老斤里).
Proper noun
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en Q6452739 en village twp/Hwanggan co/Yeongdong p:Suf/North Chungcheong c/South Korea.
en May 30, 2006 Charles J. Hanley Martha Mendoza Letter on Korean War Massacre Reveals Plan to Shoot Refugees Historian Discovers U.S. Envoy's Writings Relating to No Gun Ri w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20170827204235/https://www.washingtonpost.com/web/20170827204235/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/05/30/letter-on-korean-war-massacre-reveals-plan-to-shoot-refugees-span-classbankheadhistorian-discovers-us-envoys-writings-relating-to-no-gun-rispan/5ee1c488-37ad-48ab-be6d-3cf355874b87/?utm_term=.dd5aec4da646 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/05/30/letter-on-korean-war-massacre-reveals-plan-to-shoot-refugees-span-classbankheadhistorian-discovers-us-envoys-writings-relating-to-no-gun-rispan/5ee1c488-37ad-48ab-be6d-3cf355874b87/ August 27, 2017 0190-8286 2269358 https://archive.ph/pwaNc The letter -- dated the day of the Army's mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950 -- is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in Korea, and the first evidence that that policy was known to upper ranks of the U.S. government.
en August 22, 2014 Douglas Martin Chung Eun-yong,Who Helped Expose U.S. Killings of Koreans, Dies at 91 w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20140826105623/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/world/asia/chung-eun-yong-91-dies-helped-expose-us-killings-of-south-koreans.html August 26, 2014 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/world/asia/chung-eun-yong-91-dies-helped-expose-us-killings-of-south-koreans.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Over the years Mr. Chung — who died on Aug. 1 at 91 at his home in Daejeon, South Korea — amassed evidence that American troops had systematically killed more than 100, and possibly as many as 400, civilian refugees early in the Korean War near a railroad bridge outside the South Korean village of No Gun Ri.
en December 29, 2014 Bernard McGhee Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2014 w:AP News https://web.archive.org/web/20260125184214/https://apnews.com/general-news-079dd508c08445b3bf5797813998cef5 https://apnews.com/general-news-079dd508c08445b3bf5797813998cef5 January 25, 2026 Chung began a years-long quest for justice, which eventually prompted the U.S. Army to acknowledge having killed civilian refugees at No Gun Ri.
en historical en No Gun Ri massacre a war crime that occurred near the village.
Translations
village
Chinese:
Hokkien: nan-hbl
Mandarin: cmn 老斤里
Japanese: ja
Korean: ko ^노근리(老斤里) South Korea, ko 로근리(老斤里) North Korea
Further reading
No Gun Ri massacre
No Gun Ri, Nogun-ri
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