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September 2014: Kimchi And Tanks

The Folk Museum And War Memorial

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A Soviet T-34.  The museum emphasizes that, the success of the North's initial invasion depended in part on the fact that nothing could stop these tanks.  The North Koreans had several hundred T-34s, and the South Korean forces had no tanks or antitank weapons.  The American forces flown in to stop the invasion had only light tanks and small bazookas that could not pierce this tank's armor and ended up only delaying the invasion.
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