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...countryside east of Seoul. Pausing for rest and a drink of water at a well, she left her young daughter with some fellow refugees. When she returned, the little girl was gone. That same year Kim Sung Soo, 8, was separated from his mother in the wartime chaos around Chonan, 50 miles south of the capital. An aunt left him in an orphanage while she searched for his mother. She did not find her. Huh Hyun Chul, 9, lost his four-year-old sister when she was left behind at a barbershop during the family's flight from...
Today Korea seems ready for a genuine industrial takeoff. Factory chimneys and television aerials crowd the skylines of industrial areas like Suwon, Chonan, Taegu and Inchon. Mountains of West Virginia coal are piled up at Pohang on the southeast coast, where 10,000 employees are producing steel or building plants for what will be the world's largest integrated steelworks. Farther south at Ulsan, the rocky coastline is broken by the giant hulls of 230,000-ton supertankers taking shape at ultramodern yards. South Korea's G.N.P., $17.2 billion, is about the same as Greece...
...Seoul last week, 15 men from the city of Chonan, all members of the "Anti-Japanese Anti-Communist Suicide Corps," knelt before the gates of the Japanese embassy. As hundreds of demonstrators watched in horrified fascination, the men one by one raised carving knives and hacked off the little fingers of their left hands as a grisly sign of their anger against Japan. Wrapped in a blood-soaked flag, the severed pinkies were intended for the Japanese ambassador for transmission to Premier Kakuei Tanaka in Tokyo. Before delivery could be made, however, police rounded up the bloodied men and shipped...
There are two more lines where the U.S. might stand to fight delaying actions, the first above Chonan and Chungju. the second above Taejon (see map). It seemed likely that the Communists would soon make their customary long halt for regrouping and resupply. If they did, the Eighth Army might stop to harass them, make them pay dearly for every mile gained. But if the Chinese continued their powerful assault, the U.N. forces could not attempt a serious holding action anywhere short of the old Pusan perimeter. In Korea and Tokyo last week, there was more & more talk that...
...miles more to Ipchong, and there the column ran almost smack into two troop-laden Red trucks. The enemy fled, and Baker used the gas from their vehicles to refuel his own. At Chonan, another eight miles, enemy soldiers began to appear on both sides of the road. Baker's column kept rolling, fired ahead and to its flanks as it rolled. One of Baker's gunners kept score on its hits in a little notebook: "9:05 p.m.-two more; two more; seven more; 9:35 p.m.-30 Reds, two carts; two more; two mule carts full...