History & Heroes Of the Korean DMZ: 1953 to Today
Over recent months, North Korea has been reinforcing its positions along the Demilitarized Zone as tensions increase on the Korean peninsula. Some recent developments: 1. Land Clearing and New Fortifications In June 2024, satellite imagery revealed that North Korea cleared land at six separate locations within the Korean DMZ. This activity, aimed at reinforcing border…
Pyongyang is upset about balloons drifted over its territory by South Korean human rights activists, who included USBs with K-Pop music (banned in North Korea) in their aerial packages. The response: balloons from the North filled with trash, and worse. “All told, around 260 balloons were found scattered across a country roughly the geographic size…
Back in the 1980s, Sean Wead was an NCO running missions in the ‘Z (he’s now a colonel chaplain). “…I was manning an observation point when Chaplain (Capt.) Ken Sampson, our unit chaplain, joined me at my post…He put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Sean, it’s your father. He’s had an aneurism. They…
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