Czechoslovak military mission in Korea (1952–1956)

[1] The hospital began its operations in April 1952, two months after the political secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party made a decision to establish it.

In total, during their tenure, Czechoslovak doctors performed more than 700 demanding operations and allowed 594 patients to return to the front.

[3] According to his testimony, given in 1992 before the Armed Forces Subcommittee of the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, the Czechoslovak hospital was engaged in experiments on captured American soldiers.

He stated that part of the American soldiers were later transported to Czechoslovakia, where the experiments continued in a military hospital in Prague.

In the initial phase, according to Šejna, eighteen Czech and Slovak doctors and a larger number of auxiliary personnel were to be involved in this operation.