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Korean War Anniversary
Aired June 25, 2003 - 15:22 ET
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JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: In North Korea today more than a million people marked the 53rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War by filling the streets of Pyongyang in a protest against U.S. policies. In South Korea, meantime, the anniversary arrived as U.S. and South Korean military forces carried out a first of its kind joint training course. Here's CNN's Sohn Jie-Ae.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SOHN JIE-AE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Who says military training can't be fun? A small group of U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea wrestled in a mud pool with their local counterparts with the aim of throwing the other team out. The physically superior U.S. team was the ultimate winner. But in the end, both sides won.
It is all a part of a weeklong physically intensive ranger course. Normally just for the South Korean army, but this time expanded to include a small number of U.S. soldiers. Day after day of rope climbing, endless monkey bars and the oh so elusive rope swing over a pool of muddy water. Not to mention the countless pushups, body bends and leg lifts.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm smoked, man.
JIE-AE: No wonder. But participants say there are definite benefits.
LT. COL. KANG JAE-KU (through translator): At first, both South Korean soldiers and the U.S. soldiers are strangers. But gradually they learn to think of each other as fellow soldiers.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It give us an incredible amount of confidence to know that a unit that may be on our left or our right during combat operations is as capable as they appear to be.
JIE-AE: While these soldiers train just miles from the hostile border with North Korea, their predecessors, soldiers from all around the world, veterans of the Korean War commemorated the start of that conflict on June 25, 1950. And the ultimate sacrifice so many made on the Korean Peninsula.
(on camera): Military officials say the opportunity for U.S. and South Korean soldiers to train side by side (UNINTELLIGIBLE) as well as physical endurance. And especially a day like today serves as a reminder of just why they go through all this pain.
Sohn Jie-Ae, CNN, South Korea. (END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired June 25, 2003 - 15:22 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: In North Korea today more than a million people marked the 53rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War by filling the streets of Pyongyang in a protest against U.S. policies. In South Korea, meantime, the anniversary arrived as U.S. and South Korean military forces carried out a first of its kind joint training course. Here's CNN's Sohn Jie-Ae.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SOHN JIE-AE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Who says military training can't be fun? A small group of U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea wrestled in a mud pool with their local counterparts with the aim of throwing the other team out. The physically superior U.S. team was the ultimate winner. But in the end, both sides won.
It is all a part of a weeklong physically intensive ranger course. Normally just for the South Korean army, but this time expanded to include a small number of U.S. soldiers. Day after day of rope climbing, endless monkey bars and the oh so elusive rope swing over a pool of muddy water. Not to mention the countless pushups, body bends and leg lifts.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm smoked, man.
JIE-AE: No wonder. But participants say there are definite benefits.
LT. COL. KANG JAE-KU (through translator): At first, both South Korean soldiers and the U.S. soldiers are strangers. But gradually they learn to think of each other as fellow soldiers.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It give us an incredible amount of confidence to know that a unit that may be on our left or our right during combat operations is as capable as they appear to be.
JIE-AE: While these soldiers train just miles from the hostile border with North Korea, their predecessors, soldiers from all around the world, veterans of the Korean War commemorated the start of that conflict on June 25, 1950. And the ultimate sacrifice so many made on the Korean Peninsula.
(on camera): Military officials say the opportunity for U.S. and South Korean soldiers to train side by side (UNINTELLIGIBLE) as well as physical endurance. And especially a day like today serves as a reminder of just why they go through all this pain.
Sohn Jie-Ae, CNN, South Korea. (END VIDEOTAPE)
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
