Seoul City Sue

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Anna Wallis Suh (1900–1969), the woman generally associated with the nickname "Seoul City Sue," was an American Methodist missionary, educator, and North Korean propaganda radio announcer to the United States Armed Forces during the Korean War. Suh was born in Arkansas, the youngest of six children. After her mother and father respectively died in 1910 and 1914, she relocated to Oklahoma to join a sister's family while she completed high school. She spent her early adult years as an office clerk and Sunday school teacher. Subsequently, she studied at the Southeastern State Teachers College, in Durant, and the Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee, graduating in 1930 with a Bachelor of Arts in ministry. She spent the next eight years working as a member of the American Southern Methodist Episcopal Mission in Korea, then under Japanese rule. As Japanese authorities continued to restrict the activities of foreign missions, Suh joined the staff of Shanghai American...

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