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Funny you should say that on the anniversary of the Gwangju uprising, where Jimmy Carter sent the military to go massacre students protesting the US-installed military dictatorship in South Korea

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Can you please provide a source for this info?

I can't find Jimmy Carter's name in this research: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-10-07/local/me-51336_1_sout...

Your claim that, "Jimmy Carter sent the military to go massacre students" is not supported by that article. It was an interesting read, though.

> According to declassified U.S. documents I obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the Carter administration gave prior approval to Chun to use the army to quell the wave of unrest that shook South Korea in the spring of 1980. The hundreds of State Department and Pentagon cables contradict the official U.S. claims that the Carter administration was surprised by Chun's resort to force and had no advance knowledge he was deploying paratroopers trained to fight in North Korea against his own citizens.

Again, your claim that, "Jimmy Carter sent the military to go massacre students" is not supported by that article.

You appear to have a reading comprehension problem.

Jimmy Carter did not send the military. It was local South Korean military/junta that did so.

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