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North Korean Fighter Pilots Battled American Jets Over Vietnam
In the year 2000, a visit by North Korea’s foreign minister to a cemetery in Bac Giang, Vietnam confirmed a...
And fourteen North Korean Air Force did not return alive.
- Sebastien Roblin
- The National Interest
Since these early vague reports, historians have uncovered much more about the activities of Pyongyang’s fighter pilots, revealing they made a…
The North Korean and North Vietnamese communists had long-standing ties, and North Koreans undoubtedly sympathized with the…
More practically from Korea’s standpoint, the war in Vietnam drained U.S. and South Korean troops and…