Chinese Soldiers With U.N. Blue Helmets – The North Korea Question

By Ammoland

By Major Van Harl

Wisconsin –-(Ammoland.com)- In 1983 I was stationed on “the ROK.”

It is officially the Republic of Korea but to the rest of the world, it is South Korea. The Colonel and I, then both Captains, were posted at Osan Air Base (AB) for a year. I had just graduated from the US Army Infantry Officer Basic Course enroute to my assignment to Korea and was convinced we would be in a shooting war with the Soviet Union by 1986.

In one of my first new comer briefings we were advised of the many tunnels the North Koreans had dug under the de-militarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea and that these heathen communists from the north would use the tunnels to invade the southern part of that peninsula. All American troops stationed in South Korea were to be ever vigilant, watching for a hole in the ground to appear and screaming North Koreans running out committing mass slaughter in the streets of Seoul.

There was already one major hardened command …Read the Rest

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