Word: yalu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Close Watch. Twice the U.S. was caught by surprise in Korea, once by the invasion from the North and again when the Chinese crossed the Yalu. Lately, in response to North Korea's new aggressiveness, it has increased its defenses along the DMZ to counter infiltration moves, has examined every possible North Korean strategy and has kept a close intelligence watch on the movements of North Korean troops and armor. So far, North Korea has confined itself to nasty words and restricted infiltration and sniping. There is, however, increasing concern that Kim II Sung may be planning something more...
...from his field jacket, was the man who took over from Douglas MacArthur after President Truman fired the aging hero. (As a younger generation of hawks and doves now scarcely remember, MacArthur had publicly criticized the President for not allowing him to strike back at Red China across the Yalu.) In a brisk personal and military memoir, Ridgway, who is now 72 and retired, reviews the U.S.'s first major confrontation with Communism in Asia...
...concern to secure and defend her borders. When able to attain this end by peaceful and diplomatic means, as in the case of border treaties with Burma and Pakistan, China has done so. But when foreign armies crossed the 38th parallel in Korea and headed for China's Yalu border, Peking ordered its army to stop that threat. And when India refused to allow give-and-take negotiations about a disputed border, the Chinese army took what Peking considered to be her share of the disputed territory. In both cases, when this minimum security was won, China's army...
...with Feeling. Despite Taylor's arguments, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore still fretted that the Viet Nam struggle might escalate "until a war with China becomes almost inevitable." Taylor considered that a remote possibility. When the Chinese poured over the Yalu into Korea in 1950, "we had a very aggressive Soviet Union quite capable of militarily exploiting any commitment we made in the Far East," he explained. "We had no nuclear-weapon stockpile of any great significance. We were utterly unprepared for the land war in Korea...
During the bloody withdrawal from the Yalu River, Johnson ordered his men to pile up stacks of hay in the fields before their line of fire. When bugle-blowing North Koreans swept down in a night attack, Johnson's machine-gunners set fire to the haystacks with tracer bullets. In the heat, glare and confusion, the attackers were wiped...