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With shocking suddenness the U.N. victory march in Korea was stopped, and hurled back. Driven from advanced positions near the Manchurian border (see below), U.N. troops settled grimly to holding a defense line which in some places was only 45 miles north of Pyongyang. Generals who two weeks before had promised to have their forces on the Yalu River in a matter of days now discussed a "winter war." Said one U.S. officer grimly: "I think we can hold them...
...victory been snatched from the U.N.'s grasp? The first official explanation came in a communique issued last week by Douglas MacArthur. The supreme commander accused "the Communists" of sending "alien Communist forces" across the Yalu River and of concentrating possible reinforcements behind the "privileged sanctuary" of the Manchurian border. Said he: "While the North Korean forces with which we were initially engaged have been destroyed or rendered impotent ... a new and fresh army now faces us, backed up by a possibility of large alien reserves and adequate supply within easy reach to the enemy but beyond the limits...
...Unsan, 70 miles north of Pyongyang, a regiment of the R.O.K. ist Division was enveloped by 7,000 Communists. Thirty miles west of Unsan, U.N. air strikes failed to break stubborn North Korean resistance which stalled the drive of the British Commonwealth 27th Brigade toward Sinuiju on the Manchurian border...
...coast, ran into aggressive enemy resistance backed by artillery. The R.O.K. 3rd Division, driving in from the coast toward the Pujon and Changjin Reservoirs, two major sources of North Korea's hydroelectric power, reported that a strong Red Force was assembling near Changjin, 40 miles south of the Manchurian border...
...east coast the R.O.K. Capitol Division drove into Songjin, a seaport and rail center 75 miles southeast of the Manchurian border, but were stalled a few miles farther north by 2,000 Reds. In the Pujon-Changjin area 10,000 Reds started a drive southeast along the flank of the R.O.K. 3rd Division, headed toward the east coast city of Hamhung, 60 miles north of Wonsan. The Communists were only 30 miles northwest of Hamhung, and threatened to knife in between U.N. forces advancing north of Hamhung and the U.N. base at Wonsan...