Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the next few days U.N. planes attacked a cement factory (whose output was being used for Red fortifications) at Osu, about 35 miles north of the 38th parallel in western Korea, and supply targets on both coasts and in Pyongyang, the already battered North Korean capital. The Reds complained with almost unprecedented shrillness. Radio Pyongyang called the U.N. air campaign "a new international crime worse than the atrocities committed by Hitler." The Communists also protested the U.N. use of napalm firebombs as an act of "barbarism," a charge long made by European Communists and fellow travelers...
...John T. Selden, was due to go into reserve. But Selden, a tall, sharp-eyed Virginian who enlisted as a Marine private in 1915, asked General Van Fleet to keep the division fighting. Van Fleet agreed, and assigned the Marines to the Panmunjom sector, astride the invasion route from Pyongyang to Seoul...
...nearly 250 miles to the Yalu, and now there's not a single Commie pilot sitting across that goddam river who doesn't know that, if he sticks his nose across it, he's liable to get it shot off. First we drove them back to Pyongyang, then to the Chongchon. Since spring we've kept them penned between the Chongchon and the Yalu. Now any time we want to go to targets on the Yalu, we can go-and we can go farther if we're ordered...
...last week U.N. fighter-bombers flew 850 sorties against the Pyongyang targets. The planes were flown by U.S., British, South African, Australian and South Korean pilots; some were from carriers, including Britain's Ocean. They dropped 700 tons of bombs, thousands of gallons of napalm, left their targets blasted and burning. More than 100 U.S. Sabre and Australian Meteor jets flew top cover, drove off the few MIGs that tried to interfere. Only one plane-a Thunderjet-was lost to Pyongyang's formidable flak...
...have been costly, but a psychological one. The enemy repeated the fiction (very useful to him in the past) that U.N. pressure is a "provocation" which is "imperiling" the truce talks (in secret session last week and reported to be going fairly well). The Peking radio shrilled that the Pyongyang raids were "directed at Paris, London, New York and Moscow-at a new world war." Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai charged that U.N. planes had crossed the Yalu and attacked the great Manchurian air base at Antung (a possible real target in the future...