Korean Military Advisory Group advisor to the lOth
Regiment at Samchok and told him a heavy North Korean
attack was in progress at the 38th parallel.
U.S.Army in the Korean War, Vol. I, p. 27
Office of the Chief of Military History; U. S.
Army,Washington,D.C. , 1961
Seoul,Korea25 June 1950
The 38th parallel bisects the Korean peninsula. From a point near Ongjin, on the Yellow Sea, to another near Yangyang on theSea of Japan , the parallel stretches just over 200 miles.
If the forces of the Immun Gun, the Army of the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, had been spread out equally across the 38th parallel, there would have been one Immun Gun soldier, every twelve feet. There were 90,000 of them.
And one in three of these was a veteran of the Chinese Communist Army, which had just sent Chiang Kai-shek fleeing to theislandofFormosa .
They were not, of course, spread out across the line. They were formed in Russian-style military organizations. There were seven infantry divisions, one armored brigade, equipped with the Russian T34 tank which had stoppedGermany
‘s best, a separate infantry regiment, a motorcycle regiment, and a brigade of the Border Constabulary, the Bo An Dae,North Korea ‘s version of the Waffen SS.
