Posted on 12/04/2011 5:58:35 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
N. Korea's participation in Vietnam War specified in new dossier
By Lee Chi-dong
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea dispatched dozens of pilots to the Vietnam War decades ago, with its communist ally short of specialists to operate MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighter jets in battles against the United States, according to a recently released dossier.
"On 21 September 1966 an official North Korean request to be allowed to send a North Korean Air Force regiment to help defend North Vietnam against U.S air attacks was officially reviewed and approved by the Vietnamese Communist Party's Central Military Party Committee, chaired by General Vo Nguyen Giap," read the documents taken from an official People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) historical publication.
North Korea's Chief of the General Staff, Choi Kwang, and his Northern Vietnamese counterpart, Van Tien Dung, held talks three days later to detail Pyongyang's role in the war.
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a think tank in Washington, studied the dossier and made it public on its Web site as part of North Korea International Documentation Project.
In 2000, 25 years after the end of the Vietnam War, North Korea and Vietnam admitted for the first time that North Korea had provided military support in combat against U.S. aircraft.
North Vietnam sought North Korean pilots' help in training and combat apparently to take advantage of their experience in shooting down U.S. fighter jets during the 1950-53 Korean War.
The newly unveiled dossier show details of North Korea's military support.
"In late October or during November 1966 North Korea would send Vietnam enough specialists to man a Vietnamese MiG-17 company (a company consisted of ten aircraft)," the two sides agreed in the Sept. 21 1966 talks, adding North Korea would send more specialists to man a second Vietnamese MiG-17 company in later 1966 or early 1967.
"During 1967, after North Korea finished preparing specialists and after Vietnam was able to prepare sufficient aircraft, North Korea would send to Vietnam sufficient specialists to man one Vietnamese MiG-21 company," they also agreed.
Victory 2-2
I had a battalion commander in Korea who had served as an enlisted soldier in Viet Nam. He had some similar stories about ROK discipline. While I never saw anything that dramatic, I did watch a ROK Army rail operation one time (i.e. downloading their artillery pieces off a rail head). The officers walked around with stopwatches and metal rods and they had no problem administering a healthy swat to soldiers who were falling out of synch with the exercise.
Actually there was a story told by one of so-called N. Korean defectors. When he came to S. Korea, he ate every food he laid his eyes on. Had to endure severe stomachaches for a few days afterward. It was impossible to ignore the scene of so much food, the spectacle which he had never seen before.
I went to talk to one of my ROK radiomen in the bunker at Camp Red Cloud and caught him having relations with another male soldier. I just slid the soundproof door closed again and went to get their sergeant major. He took both of them back into a room with a steel door and commenced to beat them about the head & shouders with a 2 X 4. I never saw either one of them again. Don’t know if he killed them, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
“I honestly believe that the South Vietnamese, who the Rats betrayed utterly”
The South Vietnamese didn’t do themselves any favors when it came to their outrageous systemic corruption. Karzai must have been taking notes.
North Viet Nam War Pilots were NKOR War veterans.
Who's next?
Syrian war pilots are Iranians.
.....and many like Randy “Duke” Cunningham successfully flew for Israel. What are his visitation days?
PRNK Honchos flying for PRVN, who wudda thunk it? s/
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