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From Korean 노근리(老斤里) (Nogeulli).

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No Gun Ri

  1. A village in Hwanggan Township, Yeongdong, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
    • 2006 May 30, 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”, in The Washington Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 27, 2017[2]:
      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.
    • 2014 August 22, Douglas Martin, “Chung Eun-yong,Who Helped Expose U.S. Killings of Koreans, Dies at 91”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 26, 2014, Asia Pacific‎[4]:
      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.
  2. (historical) Ellipsis of No Gun Ri massacre (a war crime that occurred near the village).

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No Gun Ri massacre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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