THE UN FIGHT BACK
The South Korean Army, together with the 8th US Army, managed to stabilise the front around the Pusan perimeter, with the first UN reinforcements pouring in by sea. On 15 September, General MacArthur, commander of the UN forces, launched a counter-offensive behind enemy lines by landing at Inchon, Seoul’s port city. With Operation Chromite, the UN forces successfully pushed back the North Korean troops, capturing Pyongyang on 19 October and reaching the Korean-Chinese border on 26 October 1950.
THE UN FIGHT BACK
The South Korean Army, together with the 8th US Army, managed to stabilise the front around the Pusan perimeter, with the first UN reinforcements pouring in by sea. On 15 September, General MacArthur, commander of the UN forces, launched a counter-offensive behind enemy lines by landing at Inchon, Seoul’s port city. With Operation Chromite, the UN forces successfully pushed back the North Korean troops, capturing Pyongyang on 19 October and reaching the Korean-Chinese border on 26 October 1950.
CHINA INTERVENES
Communist China reacted with a massive mobilisation of “volunteers”. In November 1950, around 200,000 Chinese “volunteers” crossed the KoreanChinese frontier and pushed the UN forces back beyond Seoul, which fell once more to the Communists in January 1951.
