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- By the middle of September, it was becoming clear that the North Koreans would not be able to move beyond the Pusan Perimeter.
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By the middle of September, it was becoming clear that the North Koreans would not be able to move beyond the Pusan Perimeter. Roy Aldridge later reflected on the significance of Pusan: “If we hadn’t held the lines at Pusan, there would be no South Korea today.
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The Eighth Army was ordered to advance as far north as possible to Manchuria and North Korea's border with China, with the primary objective of destroying what remained of the KPA and the secondary objective of uniting all of Korea under President of South Korea Syngman Rhee.
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May 1, 2009 · According to some military analysts, after the breakout Walker put too much emphasis on driving north to achieve a quick linkup and too little on destroying the NKPA forces deep inside South Korea. As the Allies moved into North Korea, coordination among his two corps and X Corps was poor.
- David T. Zabecki
In August 1950, the North Koreans advanced on the Pusan Perimeter in four separate locations; Masan and Naktong in the south, Taegu in the north, and Kyongju in the east.
Everywhere around the Perimeter the North Koreans were penetrating the defense positions and in some places making spectacular gains. It was a question whether the Eighth Army and the ROK's could hold anything like the Pusan Perimeter based on the line of the Naktong.
Jun 21, 2001 · Had it not been for Task Force Smith (named after its scrappy commander, Charles Bradford Smith), the North Koreans would have driven, virtually unmolested, to Pusan and the war would have ended in a North Korean victory in just a few days.
