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Article: South Korea focused on getting help to North Korea.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2005
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Byline: Jim Landers
PANMUNJOM, South Korea _ In a pouring rain, Staff Sgt. Richard J. Henkes of Seattle stood before a squad of helmeted South Korean sentries, their fists clenched, their forearms locked at their sides. Across the street, two North Korean soldiers paced the portico of a large building.
Staff Sgt. Henkes expressed pride in being part of an elite battalion at freedom's forward outpost. But the sentiment of the battalion's motto _ "in front of them all" _ suddenly deflated as two buses loaded with tourists drove between the South and North Korean troops.
The incident illustrates an irony about the crisis over North Korea's ...