“Tick” Bonesteel III: A Semi-important Historical Figure With a Fun Name

Perhaps the first in an occasional series on semi-important historical figures with fun names

Tick Bonesteel (public domain)

The border between North and South Korea has been the most contested dividing line of the last 75 years. It was the cause of an awful war and, ever since, has been the site of one of the world’s most intense military standoffs. A nuclear-armed totalitarian power faces off there against one of the fastest-growing economies o…