1976 korean ax incident

[missyfan45]

this was the closest (until recent events) the world ever got to a second Korean war and its a bizarre story about North Korea freaking out over a tree being cut by a American solider in the DMZ and is ripe for a adventure

[Catsmate]

Aug 18, 2020 23:14:09 GMT missyfan45 said:

this was the closest (until recent events) the world ever got to a second Korean war and its a bizarre story about North Korea freaking out over a tree being cut by a American solider in the DMZ and is ripe for a adventure

I think it's the perfect background, and complications, for the retrieval of something from the DMZ. Sneaking into a heavily monitored area with watchtowers on both sides, manned by troops still technically at war is fun enough. Now do it while
there are eight hundred troops standing around, keyed up and waiting for trouble. To quote myself from the general thread: 

In 1976 in one of the more bizarre incidents of the ongoing Korean War, two US soldiers tasked with cutting down a poplar tree blocking the view of UN observers of Korean Demilitarized Zone, are hacked to death by North Koreans claiming it was planted by Kim Il-sung. The US response, Operation Paul Bunyan, occurred on 21AUG and involved sixteen engineers with chain saws, directly supported by sixty troops in 23 vehicles. Another 64 'unarmed' South Korean Special Forces were on-site, with Claymore mines strapped to their chests.
Overhead 27 helicopters carrying two hundred troops circled, with a squadron of B-52 Stratofortress bombers, escorted by Phantom fighter-bombers and F-5 fighters, behind them.
Just offshore was the aircraft carrier USS Midway and its task force escorts.
On the edges of the DMZ approximately twelve thousand US and South Korean infantry waited for a response.

I can really see Galen being involved somehow, probably with an over-complicated plan and his flying hellhound.....


Wiki: Korean axe murder incident

BBC announcement from 1977