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...steel mill at Inchon and the spinning works at Yongdungpo are heaps of blasted machinery. In Pusan, Korea's largest spinning mill is starved of electric power. The once-flourishing coal mines at Yongwol are silent relics. In North Korea, U.S. bombers have smashed a nitrogen plant at Hungnam, the oil refinery at Wonsan, marshaling yards at Sinuiju...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The Forgotten People | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

Loss of Hill 431 seemed to make the enemy's position south of the river untenable. Into Yongdungpo, Seoul's industrial suburb where U.S. marines had such a rough time last September, the dough-feet now walked without opposition. The town was silent and empty. After a while an old man and some boys appeared, clapped their hands, cried: "O.K.! O.K.!"' On stone walls, there were Communist signs: "Mansei, People's Army! Mansei, Kim Il Sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Up to the Han | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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