Chuck Bryant

He was also going to be promoted to major to like he was his life was like looking up when he was murdered.

Yeah.

Really sad.

So this was a really, really big deal, as you can imagine.

This was the first time that any UN command troops and any Americans had been killed in Korea since the end of the Korean War.

It was a huge provocation.

And there was a big question now on the table.

What is the United States military going to do now that two of its officers

were murdered by acts by North Korean troops, totally unprovoked.

This was 100% the North Koreans doing this, so much their fault that, like you said, it almost seems like it was possibly set up.

We'll talk about that a little bit later.

And so there was a big question that needed to be answered and answered really fast.

And that was, how are we going to respond to this?

Yeah.

So on the U.S.

side at the time, we had Henry Kissinger as the secretary of state under President Gerald Ford.

Like we mentioned, it was 76.

So it was the election year between Ford and Jimmy Carter.

And Ford learned about the incident when he was at the Republican National Convention.

And obviously, as secretary of state, Kissinger was kind of in charge of figuring out what to do.