From: "Gary Britt" 

That was after the hatchet attack when someone went to trim the tree before that.

I said things were tense, like a mild cold war.  That's not a war however.

Gary

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>
> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
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> > We have had continuing peace talks. Not sure if there are any currently.
> > the US government for many years seemed to think that a peace treaty
would
> > be the end. Otherwise why continue peace talks. So not exactly a 'win'.
> > Definitely not a loss though.
> >
> > We have also kept some very good combat troops there until recently and
> > have had casualties from North Korean actions over the years. Not
exactly
> > what most people could consider peace.
> >
> >
>
>
> In 1976 we used 3 B-52s , several fighters and 26 gunships to trim a tree
in
> the DMZ
>
> http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/northkorea/1976.html
> On August 18, 1976, the two sides came closer to war than any time since
the
> Korean War armistice. On that day, a party of nine South Koreans,
> accompanied by two U.S. officers and four American military police,
ventured
> into the DMZ to prune a poplar tree. They'd decided that the tree hindered
a
> clear view between two U.N. checkpoints. The party from the South was met
> near the tree by a North Korean lieutenant and seven other men. At first,
> the North Koreans didn't seem bothered by the intentions of the
tree-cutting
> crew. Then the North Korean lieutenant demanded the party halt its work.
> When he was refused, a truckload of North Korean reinforcements showed up.
> The incident quickly turned into a bloody conflict, resulting in two
> American soldiers being beaten then axed to death.
>
> But politics didn't keep the United States from staging a show of force a
> week later. With 26 helicopter gunships, three B-52 bombers and numerous
> fighter jets circling above, 300 U.S. and South Korean soldiers entered
the
> DMZ -- to finish cutting down the poplar tree.
>
>

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