Axe Murder Incident remembered

Budaechigae remembers (I, II, III) the Aug. 18, 1976 Axe Murder Incident.

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  1. TomCoyner your flag
    Posted August 18, 2006 at 6:14 pm | Permalink

    I can’t believe it has been 30 years. I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Suwon when the event happened. The overwhelming response was almost as memorable. It turned out when the US Forces showed up in overwhelming numbers, many in the DPRK thought it was the first move of the long-waited, second invasion Yankee imperialists. Alas! It was yet another false alarm, to be repeated over and over and over…

    One might think that even North Koreans might get suspicious of a little fat kid running about yelling, “Wolf!”

  2. TomCoyner your flag
    Posted August 18, 2006 at 6:23 pm | Permalink

    P.S. According to our American military guide up at the Panmunjeom last week, the alibi given by the North for the over reaction to the first attempt to cut the tree down was that Kim Il-Sung had planted that tree (out in then no where). Consider the age of the tree and the age of Kim Il-Sung, it would have taken another Socialist miracle for the Great Leader to plant a tree before his birth. But hey! whom am I to question the Pyongyang Kims?

  3. slim your flag
    Posted August 18, 2006 at 10:38 pm | Permalink

    Axe murder is actually one of the more benign enterprises of the Kim regime.

  4. Richardson your flag
    Posted August 18, 2006 at 11:30 pm | Permalink

    Hmmm;

    Yonhap: N. Korea claims self defense in 1976 slaughter of U.S. soldiers

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