BG> Keith, at 23:34 on May 31 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BL> Actually, Korean engineers are real hard bastards. They reckon they
BL> know it all, like Germans. At the time I'd been dealing with Taiwanese
BL> and the Koreans came as a terrible shock. It's no wonder they did so
BL> well in the Korean war!

BG> They wouldn't have done too well without external assistance though.

KR> but then they were fighting other koreans so both sides were on a equal 
KR> footing.

 BG> Que?  To the north, we had the North Koreans and the Chinese, and to
 BG> the south, we had Aussies, Poms, Yanks, Kiwis, and John Wayne.  

 BG> Not to forget the occasional South Korean as well... 

 i do seem to recall, although i wasn't that old at the time, that it
started off as a korean civil war with the south getting the rough end of
the stick. the un cavalry charged in and turned the tide, and that would
have been that if mcarthur had left well alone at the border, but he
decided to chase the red menace back across their own territory, and, at
that point, the yellow peril swarmed down from china, and it all went
distinctly ovoid. a lot of fighting ensued, many wacks were copped, and a
fine old time was had at the 4077th, in the end, the whole thing sort of
ground to a halt and the armed standoff that we have come to know and love
started. the north ruled by a despotic dictator, and the south by a bunch
of rather thuggish good ol' boys, one of which died in a gun battle with
his own cia.

they do make rather good vcrs though (:

                    keith
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