Chuck Bryant

No joke.

Again, that is how tense things are at the DMZ, even still to this day.

All right.

Should we take a break?

Yeah, let's take a break, and then we're going to talk about Operation Paul Bunyan Commencing.

Please enjoy responsibly.

Dad had the strong belief that the devil was attacking us.

So Chuck, this is not a reckless thing.

As a matter of fact, this was really calculated.

You mentioned General Stilwell, who was in charge of every American troop in Korea.

He personally came up with this plan and he was not a war hawk, but he also, it was a really good plan, especially if all of the troops like followed orders and nobody tried anything provocative and nobody took any bait from the North Koreans.

It was a very good plan, but the United States was not reckless at all.

in carrying out this plan, they actually got in touch with China and the USSR and basically said, hey, you know, we're thinking about doing something like this.

And China and the USSR both signaled that they were not going to do anything if North Korea started fighting, that North Korea was on their own.

I think they blinked twice and pulled their left earlobe and then touched the bill of their cap.

And the United States is like, oh, we got you.

So now it was a little less...

tense, even though it could still start a war with North Korea, at least we had this idea that China and the USSR wouldn't immediately intervene.

Yeah, I immediately thought of Dr. Strangelove.

And I could just hear Peter Sellers on the phone going, well, Dimitri, you see, there's this tree.