Re: Korean-War:UN Peace Keeping

[Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>]

Cookie et al,

One item I haven't seen mentioned is at the time the 38th Parallel (border) 
was poorly marked, especially in the mountains, so some, perhaps many, of 
these "cross border raids" were actually the result of faulty 
land-navigation that turned into fire fights when the two sides met, with 
both sides claiming the other side were "raiders."

Ed

At 12:29 PM 5/12/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Maury,
>
>I sent a message around that came from the new Russian book. Their 
>conclusion (at least the Institute of Military History, their official 
>historians) was that the DPRK took advantage of cross border raids (which 
>both sides were conducting) to pick one and use it as the excuse.
>
>But as a measured response to a 100-man raiding team, turning 200,000 
>troops loose in a drive to wipe all ROKA and US forces from the peninsula 
>is a bit of overrreaction...
>
>Cookie Sewell
>AMPS

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