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S3 Episode 5 - “Train to Busan”

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CIA's Baptism by Fire

The CIA's account of these events from a document called Baptism by Fire that was published in 2021 reads, North Korean troops supported by tanks, heavy artillery and aircraft crossed the 38th parallel. The US prepared air cover for evacuating Americans and put the seventh fleet between Taiwan, Formosa and the Chinese mainland. After that day, the United Nations Security Council voted 9-0 to condemn the Korean People's Army and formally sided with the Republic of Korea. Now, wasn't the Soviet Union part of that Security Council? Well, as you might remember, they were currently boycotting the body for not letting in the now-legitimate Communist government of China so did not exercise their potential veto

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