Korean War in the Far East

Author: Wang Shuzeng
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: A complete sovereign state was divided into two halves in just thirty minutes by a young American staff officer who had never been to North Korea. The night before, the Chinese army fighting on the Western Front at the Chongchon River had disappeared without any warning. The soldiers of the 38th Army, who had been fighting for their lives since leaving the country, stood motionless on the smoke-filled highway, their faces smudged with soot and their clothes tattered, surrounding a radio. The bridge that left the U.S. Marine Corps First Division with no alternative route was called the Waenam Bridge. On September 30, 1951, Zheng Qi, a bugler from Company 7 of the 347th Regiment of the 166th Division of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, received a red invitation card that read: "We cordially invite you—Chairman Mao Zedong of the Central People's Government." On the evening of May 29, torrential rain poured in the central part of North Korea. Seeing Hong Xuezhi, wet through to the skin, Peng Dehuai said in a low voice, "Something has happened. We must hold out in Teryan for fifteen to twenty days, even if the 63rd Army is completely destroyed!" The era when Western invaders could dominate a country by simply setting up a few cannons on an eastern coast had come to an end!