Right, but the military units with standing orders not to engage the ROKA in hand to hand combat were likely not trained sufficiently in any other martial art. (You said yourself those orders were given to the military units of countries other than the North.) I personally have had the occasion to discuss, and even spar in a couple of cases, with Americans in the military and I can say with certainty that apart from those in the Marine Corps or some kind of special forces, most of them don't receive a whole hell of a lot of training in unarmed self defense. It's therefore no surprise that any martial art would trump such training. Anyway, I have to question the efficacy of an art when I personally sparred with one of its practitioners when he should have been an expert and I should have been a relative novice and I was able to perform competitively.