Art-Of-War-Club

Kusong, Pyongan Province, North Korea. 1700 (local); 6 June 1965. 12th Cavalry Regiment had reached the airbase in the early hours of that morning. Their M60’s sat idling on the taxiways as the brass tried to work out exactly what had happened. Three days earlier, a North Korean intelligence officer tried to collapse a cave on top of a load of PoW’s that had been marched to the airbase, for reasons unknown but very much suspected to be their usefulness as human shields. Clearly, said spook had disagreed with this assessment and tried to dispose of a load of people he saw as nothing more than useless eaters. If it hadn’t been for the efforts of Colonel Kim Nam-joon, nominally the base’s commander after all the more senior officers made a run for the border, then he might have succeeded. Colonel Kim had his men digging the collapsed entrance out, mucking in himself even with the threat of a rock fall. By the time the 12th Cav arrived, any survivors had been rescued and the Norks were