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At 2:30 a.m., June 28, a deafening explosion cut the Hahngang River bridge in half. In a desperate effort to stop the advancing Communists, the South Korean army engineers dynamited the vital bridge too soon, killing and wounding hundreds of soldiers and civilians crossing the bridge. Among the wounded were war correspondents from the New York Times and TIME magazine. Another reporter, the young and pretty Marguerite Higgins of the New York Herald Tribune, and KMAG acting head Col. Wright came within a few minutes of the explosion. Higgins and Wright had to cross the river by boat. So did thousands of ROK troops, including Col.Baik, commander of the retreating 1st Division. (The ROK army later court-martialed Col.Choi Chang-sik, chief of the army engineering corps, for prematurely blowing up the bridge. He was sentenced to death and was executed. But 12 years after his execution, he was acquitted in a retrial.)
As Baik and his troops were crossing the river by small boats, American planes, mistaking them for enemy soldiers, dropped bombs, barely missing the South Koreans. Baik was both angry and happy. ¡°They¡¯re American planes! Now we have hope!¡± he shouted.
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By midmorning of June 28, the North Korean troops and tanks marched through downtown Seoul. Just three days after the launch of the invasion, the capital city of the Republic of Korea fell to the enemy!
A South Korean-born Communist, Lee Sung-yup, was named mayor of Seoul. The invaders arrested Seouth Korean luminaries who had had no chance to flee, and sent them to kangaroo courts called ¡°people¡¯s courts.¡± One of the kangaroo court victims was novelist Kim Pal-bong who almost died from barbarous lynching by the Communists and their collaborators. The North Koreans took many South Korean dignitaries to the north when they retreated three months later.
This writer was a second-grader in elementary school when the Communists took Seoul. One day we were told to go to school. At school the Communists taught us North Korean military songs. After 50 years, I still remember the tunes and lyrics.
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On the fifth day of the war, June 29, General MacArthur flew from Tokyo to Soowon, about 30 kilometers south of Seoul. As his plane approached the airstrip, a North Korean YAK fighter swooped down and shot at it. Everyone on board ducked, but the general calmly looked out the window and saw one of the four Mustang fighters that were escorting him zero in on the enemy plane. ¡°We¡¯ll get him cold,¡± MacArthur said casually.
MacArthur took a briefing from U.S. and ROK army officers, and then jeeped to the outskirts of Seoul. Arriving there, he walked up a hill overlooking the Hahngang River. Seoul was burning and smoking beyond the river. He could see retreating ROK troops and refugees streaming south. Enemy shells whistled overhead, but he did not flinch. Suddenly MacArthur told Captain James Hausman, the KMAG officer who had played a key role in setting up the ROK army, that he would like to see Col. Kim Jong-gap, one of his personal friends. Hausman said it would be too dangerous for the general to go farther forward, but MacArthur insisted on seeing the Korean officer.
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General MacArthur met Col.Kim and, through Kim¡¯s interpretation, talked with a Korean noncommissioned officer.
¡°When are you going to withdraw, soldier?¡± ¡°We¡¯re not going to withdraw until we¡¯re ordered to, sir. We will fight to the last man, General!¡±
¡°Good! What do you need the most right now?¡± ¡°We need weapons with which to fight the enemy tanks, sir!¡± ¡°All right, soldier. As soon as I get back to Tokyo, I shall send American troops to help you. Till then, stand and fight!¡±
This exchange between the five-star general and the noncom, known only as Sergeant Bahk, remains a legend in the South Korean army.
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