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Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Moolah
TIL about “Operation Moolah”, which offered large cash rewards to North Korean pilots who defected with an intact MiG-15 jet fighter. However, the only defector who ever met the conditions, No Kum-sok, was unaware of the offer. He was still paid $100,000 ($967,289 in today’s money).
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He got freedom and nearly a million dollars in todays money, seems like a great deal to me.
No Kum-Sok.
… That name has to be a joke, like that time someone told a news crew that the flight crew in a plane crash were named Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow.
Should’ve just offered him a lifetime suppy of totes toasties and a free laundry service.
I’ll get my coat.
How easy did they think it was to steal fighter jets from one of the most security-oriented countries in the world?
Then what does he cum in