Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacArthur miracle that would have established the U.N. forces in a line across the waist of Korea did not come to pass. After abandoning the Korean capital and its port, Inchon (see below), the only possible move was retreat toward Pusan...
...customary long halt for regrouping and resupply. If they did, the Eighth Army might stop to harass them, make them pay dearly for every mile gained. But if the Chinese continued their powerful assault, the U.N. forces could not attempt a serious holding action anywhere short of the old Pusan perimeter. In Korea and Tokyo last week, there was more & more talk that the U.N. forces would quit Korea altogether, would use Pusan only as a base for safe evacuation...
...Even if Pusan could be held (which was by no means certain), it was not clear what good it would do. The last time, the U.N. forces used the perimeter as a base for a counteroffensive; there was no such hope this time. The only way to strike back at the enemy-Red China-was to hit its vulnerable supply lines, its military bases, its industries from the air and sea. But that, apparently, was precisely the thing that Washington did not want...
...They Just Don't Care." All week long before Seoul fell, the refugees poured day & night through the city, out across the Han River ice and south along frozen roads, railroad tracks and byways toward Pusan. Hoping that the retreating U.N. forces would still stop somewhere and give them protection from the Communists, more than 1,000,000 of Seoul's 1,200,000 people took to the road. Altogether, nearly 2,000,000 were moving across the countryside...
...Assistance Command and Korean officials, doing their desperate best to provide clothing and shelter, tried to persuade the refugees to go to southwest Korea, where it would be easier to feed them. But the refugees, remembering that last time the Communists quickly overran the southwest, insisted on going to Pusan, where the U.N. army was likeliest to hold...