Cold War: Korea: DMZ incidents: What if Operation Paul Bunyan got out of hand?

Here is the link for information about the operation. If a firefight happened, Americans would have woken up in a "where the hell did this war come from" moment. I was only 2 at the time, I am not sure of these events were covered in the major news networks at the time or being carried out quietly. I would imagine there was considerable coverage of these events in the Korean press.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_murder_incident#Actual_operation

All it would have taken was an itchy trigger finger from a nervous Solider on either side of the DMZ, or real damage to MG Morris Brady's helicopter or person.

Brian Ghilliotti
 
America just got out of Vietnam so they'd be very unwilling to see escalation. The funny thing is that NK is probably confident that they'll win a second Korean War in the 70s(and they might), so it'll be interesting to see the US trying to stamp out a fire and making it bigger in the process.
 
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