South Korean Army soldiers check on the front line of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Inje, north of Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. (AP / Lee Sang-hak, Yonhap)
General Revisits Deadly 1984 Thanksgiving Firefight At DMZ -- Stars and Stripes
DEMILITARIZED ZONE, Korea – Maj. Gen. Bert Mizusawa returned to the DMZ on Wednesday to personally thank the family of a soldier killed there in a Thanksgiving Day firefight in 1984.
It was 27 years ago that then-Capt. Mizusawa was on his way to the Joint Security Area dining facility for Thanksgiving dinner when history came calling.
A Soviet citizen, Vasily Matusak, was on a North Korean-sponsored tour of the DMZ on Nov. 23, 1984, when he ran south across the Military Demarcation Line in an effort to defect.
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My Comment: This battle on the DMZ was just a continuation of the low-intensity conflict that has been ongoing between the two sides since the signing of the armistice. One also need not forget that it was only a year before that North Korea was successful in assassinating a number of South Korean officials in Rangoon, and tensions between the two sides was "super intense".
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