Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free, united Korea, with 47 nations voting for it, eight abstaining and only the five Russian bloc countries against it. The resolution recommends "that all appropriate steps be taken to ensure conditions of stability throughout Korea," thereby implicitly instructing U.N. forces to cross the 38th parallel...
...North Koreans: "I, as the United Nations Commander in Chief, for the last time call upon you and the forces under your command, in whatever part of Korea situated, forthwith to lay down your arms and cease hostilities." MacArthur was ready to hit the Communists above the 38th parallel with another coordinated air-sea-ground offensive...
...North Koreans had lost all but remnants of 13 divisions below the 38th parallel. They had suffered scores of thousands killed and wounded. Some 50,000 North Koreans were P.W.s. Almost all their tanks and trucks committed in the southern fighting had been knocked out or abandoned. They had no air cover. Their naval defense was limited to a few patrol boats and the sowing of Russian-made mines. To man their defenses above the 38th parallel they had two reserve divisions, the remnants from the south and a batch of new, poorly trained recruits, a force totaling about...
MacArthur promptly issued a proclamation calling on the North Korean armies to surrender. The same day, the general took steps to hasten the North Korean decision. The 3rd R.O.K. Division, one of six poised along the line, crossed the 38th parallel...
Even while R.O.K. forces drove deep into North Korea, the argument over the 38th parallel continued. The ever-present compromisers suggested that the invasion should be made by South Korean troops alone. It was a suggestion sure to please the Russians who had always maintained that the war was simply a dispute between Koreans. At week's end no U.S. ground forces had crossed the parallel...