Chuck Bryant

No, I thought it was The Simpsons, wasn't it?

No, I think it was like maybe in a Rambo or something.

Like, there's no way I would have known that as a kid otherwise.

Yeah, okay.

I can't remember where I heard it first.

But at any rate, it's a very tense scene.

I think we've set that up.

And again, you know, we had orders not to provoke.

Like, our mission is to cut that tree down.

But all hell's going to break loose if anything happens.

And like you mentioned, North Korea had –

some pretty decent incentive to kind of start some fighting.

They didn't want World War III, but they wanted South Korea still at this point.

Yeah, plus also Kim Il-sung, the dear leader, the first dear leader, he was a communist guerrilla fighting the Japanese in World War II.

He was battle-hardened and tested.

Yeah.

So he was totally into fighting.

He wasn't like a dove or a diplomat at all.

Yeah, and I think we did mention, too, that the previous tree trimming, supposedly we had told them that this was going to happen.

And so the whole provocation to begin with, if they knew about it ahead of time, then they came down there with that knowledge because they didn't raise any objections, apparently.