Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Allies. Korea: the original 150,000-man South Korean force grew to 460,000; also participating were 40,000 troops from 15 other nations fighting under the flag of the United Nations. Viet Nam: presently engaged are 550,000 South Vietnamese government troops, composed of military regulars and regional and village self-defense forces. Other allies involved are 900 Australians and 150 New Zealanders who take part in combat, along with assorted instructors and technicians, including 200 other Australians and 32 New Zealanders, twelve British, 68 Filipinos, 80 Japanese, 2,100 South Koreans, 124 Nationalist Chinese, 23 West Germans...
...Enemy. Korea: North Korean troops, 135,000; Red Chinese "volunteers," 1,000,000. Viet Nam: from an original 3,000 guerrillas trained in the North, Red strength has grown to possibly 47,000 main-force troops today, among them an estimated 10,000 North Vietnamese regulars who have infiltrated the South; there are also 80,000 to 100,000 local guerrillas and 18,000 supply troops, for a total of 145,000 to 165,000-plus an undetermined number of informers. The great bulk of the 450,000-man North Vietnamese army has not been in action...
...Conclusion. Korea: after three years, one month and two days of fighting, the Reds signed an armistice reaffirming the 38th Parallel as the boundary dividing North and South Korea; today, despite an uneasy truce line guarded by 50,000 Americans and 550,000 South Korean troops, South Korea is a sovereign, non-Communist nation. Viet Nam: no conclusion is in sight, and Hanoi leaders are described by recent British Special Envoy Harold Davies as "intoxicated with their successes...
Three days after the Korean War began, in June 1950, the U.S. hurriedly put a few rickety, World War II fighters at Long Island's Mitchell Air Force Base on 24-hour alert against the threat of an attack by Soviet intercontinental bombers. Both the threat and the alert have proved to be enduring. This week the U.S. Air Defense Command (ADC) rounds out 15 years of continuous, round-the-clock alert status-and it has come a long way from the time when P47 Thunderbolts and F-51 Mustangs were among the hottest items in its inventory...
Japanese and Korean leftists quickly took to the streets in protest. The ugliest riots took place in Seoul, where crowds rampaged through the streets and gathered under the statue of Yong Hwan Min, a Korean national hero who stabbed himself to death in protest against Japanese aggression in 1905. Seoul cops cracked scores of skulls, carted off more than 1,000 demonstrators to jail...