Chuck Bryant

But after Paul Bunyan, they they thankfully backed off.

There wasn't like an expressed apology, but President Kim Il-sung did express regret for those deaths.

So they clearly were sort of backing down at this point, you know, much to everyone's relief.

And it was it was this incident that basically everyone's like, hey, you know what?

Maybe this maybe we didn't think this through how this thing operates with these guys all being here in the same place at all times.

Right.

And so it's set up much differently now.

So you the actual line that runs the length of the DMC is the actual dividing line, even through the GS, the JSA.

Yeah, that dividing line, the military demarcation line, that is the actual border, as far as I understand, between North Korea and South Korea with the DMZ buffers on either side of it.

And they just ignored it in the JSA, but then they started enforcing it.

So now the North Korean troops and the UN command troops do not intermingle, even though their posts are feet away from one another.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It would be a really big deal for one to attack the other because you would be crossing the border now.

There's no free.

It would be an enormous deal.

It'd be an international incident.

And in fact, there was something like that in 1984.

There was a Soviet exchange student who was on a tour with the North Koreans who ran across the border.

to defect into the West.