Yalu River

So I do question if I am giving them... too much benefit of the doubt to even assume that these were moments where they felt some sort of guilt or some sort of need for a reckoning.

But, I mean, he would go on to, like... be involved in the korean war in just a few years and where you know where they're dropping napalm and biological weapons and just you know it's an absolute horror show and then also at one point completely going the opposite direction of this quote in any spirit i could imagine reading it This insane motherfucker advocated for dropping 30 to 50 atomic bombs along the Yalu River corridor to create a belt of radioactive cobalt.

And I mean it.

this would have, besides the fact that I think, like, we probably don't even know what this would have done to the atmosphere entirely, if it would have resulted in wiping out all of humanity, it also, even if you just keep it centralized to that region, you're talking about the environmental and human devastation, and it, like, absolutely, like, generational destruction that is so flippant about human life that it's almost hard to comprehend.

At that time, the CCF is expected to launch the sixth offensive.

He added hearsay that while in Anton early March, he learned that the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth CCF Armies were to follow the Fifteenth CCF Army across the Yalu River.

No further reports concerning the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth CCF Armies have been received since February 1951.

Several recent prisoners of war claim to be drawn from the Sixteenth CCF Army.

The United States quickly intervened under the banner of the United Nations to defend the South.

And eventually, hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops poured across the Yalu River to save the North.

It escalated into a massive international conflagration.

But at its absolute core, it was a brutal civil war driven by two rival Korean nationalists, Kim Il-sung in the North and Syngman Rhee in the South, who both fiercely believed they were the rightful ruler of a unified Korea.

In line with standard practices, a civil official, Song Yingchang, was made supreme commander, while Li Rusong was commissioned as commander-in-chief.

This Chinese expeditionary force crossed the Yalu River into Korea as of January 1593.

Its first battle, aimed at the recovery of Pyongyang, was a clear Chinese victory.

But just twenty days later, Li Rusong took personal command of a thousand mounts ahead of the main body of his army in a valiant pursuit, only to meet with disaster.

In line with standard practices, a civil official, Song Yingchang, was made supreme commander, while Li Rusong was commissioned as commander-in-chief.

This Chinese expeditionary force crossed the Yalu River into Korea as of January fifteen ninety-three.

Its first battle, aimed at the recovery of Pyongyang, was a clear Chinese victory.

But just twenty days later, Li Rusong took personal command of a thousand mounts ahead of the main body of his army in a valiant pursuit, only to meet with disaster.