The Korean Variant

If your life is built on hatred, if after monstrous torture and mockery you were given a chance at a new life, then those you have grievances against can only be pitied.

That was exactly the kind of man Fёdor Palkin, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, was—and he had more than enough scores to settle against one star-and-striped nation.

So, Korea, 1949—and soon, war.