The museum is located in Sinchon County of North Korea.

[2] The Sinchon Museum of American War Atrocities houses exhibits the deaths of over 35,000 people from 17 October to 7 December 1950, at the same period of time when the major cities of North Korea, such as Pyongyang (the capital city) and Hamhung, were under wartime occupation by South Korean, American and United Nations military forces.

[1] The South Korean-based Institute for Korean Historical Studies concluded that both Communists and anti-Communist vigilantes engaged in wholesale slaughter throughout the area, and that the 19th Infantry Regiment took the city and failed to prevent the South Korean secret police that came with them from perpetrating the civilian murders; however, the regiment did not participate themselves.

Furthermore, when North Korean communists retook the city, the population was again purged.

[3][4] Other sources have concluded that the "massacre" was caused by a local rivalry that used the fog of war as a pretense.