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...within 35 miles of the DMZ, in easy range of the North's huge assembly of artillery. U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry acknowledges that its weapons are larger and better than anything owned by Iraq's Saddam Hussein. They include hundreds of 240-mm rocket launchers and 170-mm Koksan guns, among the longest-range artillery weapons in the world. North Korea's 10,000 artillery pieces plus the rocket launchers can fire up to 20 million rounds of high explosives, fuel-air explosives and chemical weapons in a single day. Its 120 Soviet-designed Scud and FROG missiles could...
General MacArthur announced that a line from below Chinnampo to the Koksan area had been established (see map), but it was unlikely that such a line could be held, because of its open right flank...
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