Key point: A clash on the DMZ over a tree literally resulted in murder. This incident ... around with axe handles and .45’s. I’m looking north at all of the various North Korean bunkers ...

YONGSAN GARRISON, South Korea (June 8, 2012) -- Senior military officials dedicated a monument June 8 to the ... From the Panmunjom axe murders to the various other attacks by the North, 43 ...

Forty one years ago, the first true conflict between north and South Korea directly ... its mission without incident. Today, at the Bridge of No Return, a bronze and stone monument stands where ...

At the time of the Axe Murder Incident, 160 American and 75 South Korean soldiers were assigned to the elite U.N. Joint Security Command that guarded the JSA. All volunteers, the troops were ...

The Korean peninsula, he counseled, is “a spontaneous place.” The incident is also a reminder ... who oversaw the U.S. response to the axe murders and still occasionally advises Trump on ...

The so-called “Axe Murder Incident” took place in August 1976 ... were killed after being swarmed by North Korean troops attempting to stop the operation — on the grounds the tree had ...

A memorial sent by President Yoon ... which oversees the 1950-53 Korean War armistice. The axe murder is the most brutal incident that took place in the DMZ, nearly pushing the two Koreas to ...

Now free, Mr Oh has begun a new life in South Korea. Perhaps the most brutal incident to occur in the DMZ was an argument over a tree in 1976 that spiralled into an axe murder. US Army officers ...