Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possibilities but present-day facts. Its cities gutted, its land scorched, its people uprooted, Korea had ceased to exist as a nation, had become a monument to the ravages of war. By the most optimistic speculation, U.N. forces would be able to hold only a corner of the shattered peninsula...
...General Assembly decided that the only expedient course was to give South Korea over to a Korean government, duly elected under the aegis of the U.N. The Department of the Army was very anxious to get the last the U.S. occupation troops (about 8,000 men) out of the peninsula. Army Secretary Kenneth Royall kept urging State to give him the signal. Acheson gave the signal and by June 1949 the troops were withdrawn...
Instead of withdrawing to Position Charlie-twin perimeters around Seoul and Pusan (TIME, Dec. 25)-Douglas MacArthur made a bolder decision: hold a line across the Korean peninsula, just below the 38th parallel. Since the line was about 150 miles long, it was not continuous but a series of strong points, with R.O.K. divisions apparently stationed on the right flank. In case of a cave-in on the right flank, the line could be pulled back around Seoul to form a semicircle with both flanks anchored on the Yellow...
...General MacArthur's warning that 150,000 North Koreans had been regrouped into well-equipped fighting divisions, presumably for service in South Korea. A fourth was a broadcast from Pyongyang-the first since the North Korean capital's "liberation"-proclaiming that "imperialists" would be driven off the peninsula...
...leader of the U.N. coalition, was not preparing to defend all of South Korea. But neither was it planning to quit the peninsula altogether-at least not now. During its retreat, the Eighth Army stood first on "Line Able" below Pyongyang, and when that failed to hold, withdrew to "Line Baker," just below the 38th parallel. Since this line would become untenable as soon as the sluggish Chinese were ready to strike, the next move would be to "Position Charlie"-which will consist only of two beachhead perimeters, one around Seoul and Inchon, the other one at Pusan...