In 1968, Kim Il Sung, the dictator of North Korea, decided to step up insurgency attacks against American and South Korean troops in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of Korea to take advantage of American involvement in the Vietnam War during the Tet Offensive. The idea was to use American’s distraction in Vietnam to launch attacks that would destabilize South Korea and cause the overthrow of its government led by President Park Chung Hee.
What followed was a second Korean War in the 1960s, a smaller war than the first, but a brutal war nonetheless. A war most Americans at home were not aware of.
A vicious series of hit and run attacks across a desolate and deserted two-mile belt of blasted barbed-wire encrusted earth, the raids took place between two of the world’s largest and most hostile armies.
With the advent of nuclear weapons possessed by North Korea, the DMZ today remains one of the world’s most dangerous places.
A War Out of Mind is the story of a conflict that still today is among the least known by the American public. A non-fiction style novel depicting real events, it was written to shed more light on the courage and sacrifice made by soldiers of the U.S. Army 2nd Division in the Korean DMZ.