Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talks started. Apparently, the Reds wanted to keep Kaesong for face-saving reasons: it was the only sizable town they still held south of the 38th parallel. The U.N. wanted to keep it out of Red hands because the town and the neighboring heights control the western approach to Seoul...
...running up and down these mountains getting their fannies full of lead. And what have we proved? I got news for you, Mister; the next time this boy fights to defend anybody's country, it'll damn well be his own." But an officer said: "You seen Seoul? We11.. I'd hate for that to be Decatur, Illinois...
...Reds' central-front bastion, and beyond Yonchon, about 35 miles to the west. On the Yonchon sector, the battered but indomitable U.S.1st Cavalry Division had been trying, against savage enemy resistance, to push the Reds out of hills from which they could fire on the rail line from Seoul to Chorwon, the allied-held west corner of the old Red Iron Triangle. Last week, as the ist Cavalry's men waded in with bayonets and grenades, enemy resistance suddenly collapsed as the beaten Chinese Communists pulled out to the north. The G.I.s moved into the enemy bunkers...
...lines. Then they made a counterproposal: Why not meet in Panmunjom, a village just a mile away from Songhyon? Ridgway promptly agreed that Panmunjom met "the fundamental condition of equality of movement and control." Once again it was left to juniors to work out the details. But in Seoul and Tokyo, U.N. commanders continued in their optimistic belief that the Reds genuinely want a ceasefire...
...Reds had planned a winter-long stopover. In addition to jerking the enemy out of his prepared winter positions, the offensive had helped strengthen the allied winter line by pushing the enemy back out of reach of the railroad which runs down from Kumhwa through Chorwon and Yonchon to Seoul. What had seemed at first to be an all-out offensive had turned out to be a limited tactical offensive. "Splendid," said tough-talking General Van Fleet. "We have broken up their potential so they cannot surprise...