Chuck Bryant

And you just you had to have that line of sight open.

So they said the UNC was like, we got to get rid of this tree.

So they sent a couple of unarmed South Korean workers down there to just sort of figure out the best way to remove it.

And the first sort of reaction was the North Korean guards said,

chased them away.

So that was sort of the line in the sand, was get out of here, get away from that tree.

Yeah.

Apparently they tried again a couple days later and got rained out.

And then finally, on August 18th, they were like, okay, we're just going to go ahead and do this.

Those first guys got chased off, so we're going to essentially assign a few men to escort them.

I think a 15-man team went over on August 18th, led by Captain Bonifaz.

And they started pruning the tree.

Totally normal stuff.

Yeah, just to prune at this point.

Yeah, they're just pruning it back.

They just want to make sure that even during summer, they can see Checkpoint 3, the loneliest outpost in the world.

Because like you said, it's very dangerous to man that.

So they're just pruning it, right?

And very quickly, the North Koreans came over the Bridge of No Return.

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