Panmunjom Korea JSA North South Korea United Nations Incident August 18 1976 NO SOUND

Published on Jun 21, 2018
This is official (silent) film footage from the United Nations Command and part of the American Forces Korea Network (AFKN) video library (at least in the 1990s) of an incident that occurred on August 18, 1976 near Panmumjom, when a United Nations contingent attempted to cut down a poplar tree in the Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea. Among those as part of the contingent were U.S. Army Officers CPT Arthur Bonifas and 1LT Mark Barrett, who died in the resulting attack. "The U.S. Army officers had been part of a work party cutting down a poplar tree in the JSA that partially blocked the view of United Nations (U.N.) observers when they were assaulted and killed by the North Koreans, who claimed that the tree had been planted by Kim Il-Sung. Three days later, American and South Korean forces launched Operation Paul Bunyan, an operation that cut down the tree with a show of force to intimidate North Korea into backing down, which it did. North Korea then accepted responsibility for the earlier killings. The incident is also known alternatively as the hatchet incident, the poplar tree incident, and the tree trimming incident. One of the South Korean soldiers who participated in Operation Paul Bunyan, Moon Jae-in, was elected President of South Korea in 2017."

The first part of the film is at full speed, the second part of the film is repeated and slowed down.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/axe-murder-north-korea-1976/5620

Additional video :

https://youtu.be/I9YeOiHuqAY