Comments on: Axe Murder Incident remembered

By: Richardson

Richardson — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:30:02 +0000

Hmmm;

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

By: slim

slim — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:38:28 +0000

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

By: TomCoyner

TomCoyner — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:23:16 +0000

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?

By: TomCoyner

TomCoyner — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:14:00 +0000

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!”