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Today Korea seems ready for a genuine industrial takeoff. Factory chimneys and television aerials crowd the skylines of industrial areas like Suwon, Chonan, Taegu and Inchon. Mountains of West Virginia coal are piled up at Pohang on the southeast coast, where 10,000 employees are producing steel or building plants for what will be the world's largest integrated steelworks. Farther south at Ulsan, the rocky coastline is broken by the giant hulls of 230,000-ton supertankers taking shape at ultramodern yards. South Korea's G.N.P., $17.2 billion, is about the same as Greece...
...prisoners will walk south under the control of the compound leaders. Searchlights, loudspeakers and barbed-wire lanes marked with white tape will guide them. At the edge of the demilitarized zone, the North Koreans will be met by South Korean officials, whisked aboard trains and taken to Kunsan and Pohang, where they may (if they choose) be inducted into the ROK army. The Chinese prisoners will be met by Nationalist officials, trucked to Inchon and loaded on U.S. Navy LSTs bound for Formosa...
...Corps (one Marine, two Army and two R.O.K. divisions), which had been evacuated from Hungnam to Pusan and Pohang, was made a part of the Eighth Army. Thus, Lieut. General Matthew B. Ridgway, the Eighth Army's new commander, became MacArthur's overall ground commander in Korea. After a brief stop in Tokyo, Paratrooper Ridgway last week arrived in Korea to take over his command. Said he to his staff: "You will have my utmost. I expect yours." Said he to South Korea's Syngman Rhee: "I aim to stay...
...defined perimeter-with flanks on the south and east coasts-which was to grow smaller before it grew bigger. The south flank rested just west of Masan, the center of the line shielded Taegu, the vital "turntable," and on the east coast the line touched the sea north of Pohang. To defend his perimeter, Walker had, or soon would have, elements of five U.S. divisions-the 24th, 25th and 2nd Infantry, the 1st Cavalry, the 1st Marine...
...bloody battles, the U.S. beat back a massive enemy thrust at Taegu and shrank or wiped out the Red bridgeheads across the Naktong River. On the east coast, the South Koreans lost Pohang, regained it after U.S. reinforcements sped to help them...