Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear that no compromise was possible. With Rhee's agreement, both the U.S. and U.N. urged that North Korea take part in a nationwide general election. North Korea's Communist leaders refused. Fearing the results of a free election, they turned the 38th parallel into an impassable frontier, thereby economically crippling both halves of Korea...
...conglomerate Russian-led army of Chinese, Mongolians, Koreans and Japanese is posted along the north Manchurian frontier. Numbers and organization unknown, they form a reservoir of indoctrinated troops who can be used in their native lands whenever necessary...
...ever recognized the 38th parallel as a permanent political frontier...
...with Red China. Four Communist battalions attacked the isolated clay fort at Dongkhe (100 miles north of Hanoi), overpowered its 200 French Foreign Legion defenders in a hand-to-hand fight. They also shelled Thatkhe, ten miles south of Dongkha, while other Communist forces massed near the French-Chinese frontier...
...that "U.N. forces should not remain in any part of Korea" after they have done everything necessary to establish "a unified, independent, and democratic government in the sovereign state of Korea." Although this resolution if passed now, will give U.N. backing to the military crossing of the north-south frontier, it would have been far better to have waited for that justification before proceeding...