Word: uijongbu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aboard a helicopter. The camp commander, Major Thomas G. James of Plymouth, Pa., flew the copter himself. James planned to leave the boy at a disused field and make him walk back to Ascom City. But he found he could not get the box open, and flew on to Uijongbu, twelve miles north of Seoul. 'T have a box of spare parts on board," he radioed the field. When the box was unloaded, a Korean soldier heard "whimpering," found Kim inside. "That's a slicky boy [slang for thief]," observed James. Freed, Kim made his way back...
...roads that wind from Seoul to Munsan, to Uijongbu and farther east, in central and eastern Korea, many families like the Ahns were on the move last week. In a thousand hamlets and settlements, some within sound of artillery on the stalemated battlefront, the blue-grey ashes of prewar villages were being raked aside, raw pine uprights were being planted, and women & children were combing through the rice straw for thatching for new roofs. Of the 22 million people in South Korea, about a fourth are homeless. No matter how hard and hopefully they work they cannot soon replace their...
...behind the Imjin, R.O.K. units gained several miles, and at week's end stood on high ground overlooking the river. U.N. patrols entered Munsan, after routing some 6,000 Reds who had held up the advance for a week. Chunchon (given up by the enemy last fortnight) and Uijongbu remained in no man's land, although dominated most of the time by allied reconnaissance forces...
...Reds were building up strength massively in four main sectors-north and east of Uijongbu, and north and west...
...next day the mired tanks were retrieved. And the day after, a U.S. armored force pushed into Uijongbu against only light opposition...