Thursday, July 17, 2025

Story Post: Korea Exchanges Volunteer Army Nationals

Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 20:03:15 UTC

Prisoners on both sides of the Korean War were exchanged at Panmunjom in 1953, following the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement. Members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, deployed by Mao as the “Volunteer Army” to avoid any complications of a direct war with the United States, were among those exchanged.”

Comments

Josh: he/they

17-07-2025 15:39:47 UTC

Score 1 for ahistoricity: North Korea has always had a conscript army and had no ‘volunteer army nationals’ to exchange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_North_Korea#History

(Open to changing this if citations are provided to the contrary, will accept proof via the Puzzler if the author wishes to preserve their anonymity)

Bucky:

17-07-2025 19:26:51 UTC

Score 2 as unlike Josh I believe there were some volunteers in the army fighting on the North Korean side, but this acronym is nonetheless deceptive.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

17-07-2025 19:41:58 UTC

Score 3 - I’m not versed well enough in history to call whether this is accurate or not, but I’ll factor the above comments in while also saying that the acronym itself seems just fine.

JonathanDark: he/him

17-07-2025 19:51:45 UTC

Posting on behalf of a Wordsmith who wishes to remain anonymous:

https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/osprey-blog/2024/chinese-volunteers-in-the-korean-war-1950-53/

Bucky:

17-07-2025 21:54:05 UTC

Volunteer Army being a proper noun improves the historicity and appropriateness but also earns a proper noun penalty. No net effect on my scoring.

Josh: he/they

17-07-2025 22:26:33 UTC

I think it ups it for me. Score 2.

Darknight: he/him

18-07-2025 00:30:09 UTC

Score 3, pretty much in the same boat as tds

aria: she/they

18-07-2025 02:09:49 UTC

Score 3. The Backronym is fine.

Kevan: Yard he/him

18-07-2025 10:09:43 UTC

Score 4, very plausible as a headline, taking the historicity at face value.

Clucky: he/him

18-07-2025 13:46:43 UTC

Score 3

Clucky: he/him

18-07-2025 13:47:26 UTC

Wait I need a reason don’t I

Score 3 feels perfectly serviceable but also nothing special

Chiiika: she/her

18-07-2025 18:26:47 UTC

Anything that isn’t war related would be 4+. Gosh, darn; you all seems to kinda just remember wars (and cold wars). Score 1

JonathanDark: he/him

20-07-2025 20:02:45 UTC

This Backronym is now closed.

None of the words in the title of this Backronym included all the letters of any of the Buzzwords.

Kevan gained 3 Points from the median Score.