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Chuck Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

Yeah, what made it even more significant was that the South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, was actually one of the South Korean commandos who took part in Operation Paul Bunyan.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

And then there's one other little note that I found pretty interesting.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

There's a one-hole PAR-3, well, golf, I don't think you could call it a course, but it's like an astroturf, well, a PAR-3 that's surrounded by landmines.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

now where the poplar tree used to be, and it's called the most dangerous hole in golf from Sports Illustrated.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

Yeah, and we never really said, you know, we kind of hinted around that this might have been all planned to begin with.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

And there is circumstantial evidence that suggests that that whole attack was preplanned to begin with.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

You know, because I mentioned that we had gotten in touch with them and said, hey, we're going to prune this tree.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

And no one really said, like, no, don't do that.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

And so that attack seemingly came out of nowhere.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

But one big clue was, I think, three minutes after this incident occurred,

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

Radio Pyongyang, which is the North Korean state radio, they broadcast a very biased report on this like right after it happened.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

So it seems pretty clear that it was preplanned.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

But analysis later on seems to indicate that the Soviets did not know about it and they were kind of acting on their own.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

I saw one other piece of circumstantial evidence, too, that kind of is pretty definitive, is that within five hours, there was a non-aligned nation, which were the nations during the Cold War who didn't choose sides.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

All of them were meeting in Korea.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

And within five hours, Korean delegates were at that meeting handing out memos describing the axe murders.

Stuff You Should Know
Operation Paul Bunyan

And totally blaming it on the Americans, like had completely flipped it around in an effort to kind of drum up support to get the Americans out.