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...first entry had been made into the southern section of Pyongyang. During the night cavalry troopers and R.O.K. soldiers pushed across the Taedong River, which cuts Pyongyang in two, knifed into the northern part of the city. By the next morning Pyongyang's business and administrative districts had been liberated...
...morning last week, two U.N. columns jumped off for the final assault on the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. The 5th Regiment of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division drove out of the mountains 16 miles south of Pyongyang. The R.O.K. 1st Division punched in from a point eight miles southeast of the city. The R.O.K. troops were commanded by Brigadier General Paik Sun Yup, a man with a grim ambition to be the first into Pyongyang. Five years ago the city's Communist rulers had sawed off the head of General Paik's baby...
Meeting Up. The cavalrymen, firing from their vehicles, drove swiftly through Pyongyang's outer defenses, left the enemy on their flanks to be mopped up by the men who followed them. At 11 a.m. the 5th's 2nd Battalion blasted its way into the southern edge of Pyongyang...
About the same time, soldiers of the R.O.K. 1st Division entered Pyongyang's handsome, tree-lined streets from the east. While diehard North Korean snipers blazed away, U.S. and R.O.K. troops met on an avenue flanked with burning buildings. Brigadier General Frank A. Allen Jr., assistant commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, sought out General Paik. Said Allen: "The 1st Cavalry Division wants to congratulate you on a wonderful job." Paik, a veteran of the Japanese army, slapped the back of every American, in sight, repeated exultantly: "Damn good job. Damn good...
...post war initiative to Russia and North Korean Communists. Hodges evacuated all Japanese residents in South Korea, including technicians, leaving the southern area without the technical know-how necessary for postwar reconstruction. Russia, on the other hand, sent Soviet technicians north of the 28th parallel; and the Russian sponsored Pyongyang government enacted immediate land reform...