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U.S. imperialists' looting of Korean national treasures

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Recorded in the U.S. imperialists' 100-odd-year-long history of aggression on Korea are evidences of their looting of cultural treasures. Even after the liberation of Korea on August 15, 1945 they took away a large number of treasures from South Korea.
    Gregory Henderson, an official of the U.S. embassy in Seoul, took many pieces of historic relics to the United States from South Korea in seven years from Juche 37 (1948).
    At Ohio State University in 1969 he exhibited 143 pieces of relics including those dating back to the 12th century and the 18th century. The U.S. imperialists robbed a museum in Seoul of even a gold crown of the Silla era in the spring of 1949.
    During the Korean War (June 1950-July 1953), they bombed many cultural relics and remains and took away more than 6,700 pieces from the northern half of Korea, 1,200 pieces from the Kyongbok Palace Museum in Seoul, and 6,000 pieces from the Toksu Palace gallery, over 14,500 pieces in all.
    After the war they have continued destroying and looting valuable cultural relics and remains in South Korea.
    It is well known a fact that a great number of cultural treasures of the Korean nation are on display at most of museums and galleries in the United States.