Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outclassed. The Communists were in precipitate flight to a new, hastily organized defensive position stretching from the peninsula's west coast near Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, to Wonsan, traffic junction and port on the eastern shore. They were heavily outclassed in equipment. The advantage of numbers had passed to the U.N. forces...
...supplies the Communists depended largely on road communications extending 100 to 300 miles from the Manchurian and Siberian borders. U.N. air power harassed and hampered these lines. They could be cut at a critical point by a U.N. landing above or below the mudflats on the west coast opposite Pyongyang. Once MacArthur's men were ashore again, the U.N. would have another anvil on which the hammer of troops advancing from the south could crush the enemy's last organized forces and thus pound out the final victory...
...next dawn a big U.N. aerial hunt was underway. Superforts, Shooting Stars and Mustangs scourged the highways coming down from the north to Pyongyang on the west and Wonsan on the east coast of the peninsula. The enemy's vehicles moved warily by night, were pulled off the roads and skillfully camouflaged during the day. North of Pyongyang, U.N. planes claimed the destruction in one 24-hour period of 85 trucks carrying tanks and artillery. Rockets and napalm bombs hit supply dumps, barracks and training camps in the North Korean defense line...
Douglas MacArthur, the victor of Korea, called on Pyongyang to surrender (see below...
Over the Line. By week's end MacArthur had also received more concrete instructions. From the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff came orders permitting him to send his forces well above the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, provided they stayed out of the mountains south of the Korean-Manchurian border. In short: invade but don't get too close to Vladivostok...