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North & South. After nearly three years of war, there is not much left of Korea. North of the 38th parallel the devastation is immense. U.N. intelligence estimates that bombing and strafing have destroyed 40% of all habitations of any kind; U.N. bombers no longer have profitable targets. The civilian population has diminished from 8,000,000 to perhaps 4,000,000-killed in the bombing, dead from malnutrition or cold, fled to the South for freedom, or carried off by the Communist occupiers. The North Korean army is a shadow: perhaps only 50,000 soldiers remain of their once formidable...
Rogge stated that it is preferable to stay on the 38th parallel in Korea for 50 years rather than to precipitate...
TIME'S [Jan. 26] "Solution in Korea" is the first sensible suggestion on this issue to appear in the press since the Communists moved across the 38th parallel. As one of those W.W. II retreads who spent months along the present battle line in Korea, however, I can only lament that this strategy has been too long delayed...
Political Question. Criticism stemming from this state of mind landed on MacArthur as soon as he began pursuing the shattered North Korean army above the 38th parallel. When the Chinese Communists attacked, they threw MacArthur back; he, and later Ridgway, stabilized the front, and the U.N. forces were advancing again when the Reds set up the peace talks. The siege mentality in the U.N. nations revived, as the Communists doubtless thought it would...
...nine battalions; fresh from his 45 training schools came officers and NCOs. A month later, the Bootleg Division was on a 150-mile march to the front, under Brigadier General Yoon Chun Keun, 41, graduate of the Manchurian army academy, who was a regimental commander sitting on the 38th parallel the day the North Koreans opened...