Originally Posted by
DukieInKansas
While living in Seoul, we somehow became acquainted with the officers stationed in the Joint Securry Area (PanMunJom) of the DMZ. My mom would often arrange for visitors to get a tour of the JSA. One of the times, she asked the officer if she should stay back at The Monastery (the officer's club) since she had been up there a lot. He assured her that the North Koreans already had a file on her, so there was no reason to stay back. I went up there quite a few times also, so I figured they probably had one on me as well.
The stories they shared about the North Koreans trying to top the UN side were pretty funny. At the time, the one thing they couldn't do was have tall soldiers. The US Army required that the personnel stationed in the JSA be over 6 feet tall. The first officer I met was 6' 11".