Hey everyone, producer Rob popping in before the episode to say,

thank you so much for helping us reach and pass our goal during Max Fun Drive.

We made it, so be on the lookout for that pork chop feed.

Thanks everyone. Here's the episode. for that is

is the episode. Today's film is about a conflict that is transmogrified into an

asymmetric nuclear cold war that is still with us today. But at one time the Korean War was a boots on the

ground hot conflict that we came very close to losing. Operation Kromite was a Hail Mary maneuver

that General Douglas MacArthur oversaw to reinvade the Korean

peninsula and cut off the supply lines of Kim Il-Sung's armies, which had nearly run the allies

and the anti-communist South Koreans into the sea.

In today's film we see MacArthur, one of our most colorful generals, portrayed by Liam Neeson,

an actor with a very particular set of skills he has acquired over a very long career

skills that make him a nightmare for a movie like this he's a big important figure in

the history this film portrays and if you're in the US, you might have seen posters and trailers that imply that he's the star of the film.

But he's really just a prestigious B story that seems to be present to make this film marketable to Western audiences,

because this is a Korean film, with a Korean cast, and most of it is in Korean.

Our main character, Jang, is the ex-communist leader of a crack infiltration squad, who we meet on a train

headed for Enchon.

Using concertina wire and the elements of surprise, they murder and then impersonate a communist officer and his retinue who are being stationed and inch on on some kind of inspection mission.

The primary bad guy is Senior Colonel Lem, who has close ties to the fearless leader Kim Ilun.

He has maps and information about how the Inchon Harbor has been mined to prevent amphibious

attacks and our intrepid spies need to extract that information to transmit it to the Americans

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