Word: kwon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend, Britain's Major General M. M. Alston-Roberts-West (said West later: "He knew as much about my division and what it has on the line as I did myself"). Ike the President-elect told South Korea's General Chung Il Kwon: "As far as I'm-concerned, you ROKs are going to be a lot bigger & better." Ike the general visited an Army mobile hospital and chatted briefly with the patients...
...Ridge, on the rugged sector north of Kumhwa, it was a joint effort by South Koreans and by Americans of the U.S. 7th Division (TIME, Oct. 27). Later, Triangle as well as Sniper was taken over by Koreans of the ROK 2nd Division, commanded by Lieut. General Chung II Kwon, who last week was appointed deputy commander of Major General Reuben E. Jenkins' IX Corps.* Chung's men stood fast against continuous Chinese probes, and General Mark Clark, on a tour of the front lines, praised them for "magnificent fighting...
General Ridgway, commander in chief of U.N. forces in Korea, sent the Security Council two captured documents: 1) a North Korean general staff order, dated June 18, .1950, for reconnaissance of Seoul "as the attack begins;" 2) North Korean 4th Infantry Division Commander Lee Kwon Mu's operation order No. 1, dated June 22, 1950, naming Seoul as the objective of a "frontal attack." Said Ridgway: "These two orders . . . provide clear and documented information that the attack launched on June 25, 1950, was ... a deliberate and preconceived plan for the conquest of the Republic of South Korea...
Brigadier General Chung II Kwon took over as chief of staff of the battered South Korean army when his predecessor, General Choi Pyung Duk, proved unable to stem the North Korean invasion. Rated a "first class officer" by U.S. military men, 36-year-old General Chung was trained in the rough-spoken Japanese army, but has long been noted in Korea for his polite, unsoldierly speech. Says earnest, spectacled General Chung: "There are two types of army people: one is the fighter, the excitable, rough type. The other is the planner. It is the planner's duty to remain...