Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commanders were also worried by the condition of the more than 3,000 U.S. prisoners in Red stockades scattered from Pyongyang to the Yalu. By radio, Matt Ridgway dispatched a personal appeal to North Korea's Kim II Sung and Red China's Peng Teh-huai that they start permitting Red Cross inspection at once, as the U.N. has been doing all along. The U.N. subcommittee men at Panmunjom asked that sick and wounded prisoners be exchanged at once...
...MIGs are now based chiefly just across the Yalu in Manchuria. But in recent months, said Vandenberg, the Communists have made a major attempt to repair and defend three airfields 90 miles to the south, near Pyongyang. If they succeed in putting these fields into operation despite U.S. bombing attacks, they will be able to challenge U.N. air supremacy even over the battle line itself...
Attacks on Communist supply lines, which so far have kept the Communist army stalled, would be reduced to only a fraction of their present effectiveness. "In other words," said Vandenberg, "the air space between the Yalu and Pyongyang, in which we had previously been able to operate unhindered, is now a 'no man's air,' and has become the area of decision in the Korean air war." He added ominously: "If [the enemy] wins in the air, the stalemate on the ground is not likely to continue...
...settling on the 38th parallel, but will insist on the present battle line, though willing to give & take a little. The other is that if the Reds reject peace, and U.N. forces push forward in a full-scale offensive, there is only one safe place they could stop: the Pyongyang-Wonsan line across the narrow waist of North Korea. At that place, there would be no doubt...
While the Peking and Pyongyang radios reached new heights of invective ("cunning," "deceitful," "arrogant," "blackmail" and "lunacy"), the Communists last week broke off the Kaesong truce talks. It was the first time they had done so, although Matt Ridgway had done it twice...