From Budapest to the Korean war : Hungarian physicians in North Korea, 1950-1957

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Тематические рубрики

• Politics - Foreign Policy and International Relations - Diplomacy
• Physicians, Foreign - Korea (North)
• Hungarians - Korea (North) - Biography
• Korea (North) - Foreign relations - Hungary
• Hungary - Foreign relations - Korea (North)

Аннотация

The Korean War started out as a clash between the two rival Korean governments in Pyongyang and Seoul. However, it was not long before it evolved into a huge international conflict. As it is well known from the pages of the history books, five countries – Sweden, India, Denmark, Norway and Italy – provided medical support for South Korea. Meanwhile, some of the former Soviet bloc countries including Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia, established hospitals in different provinces of North Korea. Hungary was the first among the Central and Eastern European states which sent its medical teams to the battlefield, and more than 200 Hungarian physicians, paramedics and nurses served there, divided into eight groups, arriving in the country consecutively between 1950 and 1957.