To: TobagoJack who wrote (66486 ) 9/25/2010 11:29:07 PM From: Hawkmoon 4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to enough americans believed that america had opportunity to march upto and beyond the yalu river and voiced as such enough americans believed that america had opportunity to march upto and beyond the yalu river and voiced as such 2. The adoption of our active policy mentioned above is extremely favorable to China, Korea, the East, and the world. If we do not send troops [to Korea], the reactionaries at home and abroad will be swollen with arrogance when the enemy troops press to the Yalu River border. Consequently, it will be unfavorable to various parties and especially unfavorable to Northeast China. [In such a situation,] the entire Northeast Frontier Force will be tied down and the power supplies in South Manchuria will be controlled [by hostile parties]. In short, we hold that we should enter the war. We must enter the war. Entering the war is greatly to our advantage; it is greatly to our disadvantage if we do not enter the war. The Korean war was brought to a practical end with the closing of the trap on enemy elements north of Pyongyang and seizure of the east coastal area.... The defeat of the North Koreans and destruction of their armies was thereby decisive. In the face of this victory of United Nations arms, the Communists committed one of the most offensive acts of international lawlessness of historic record by moving without any notice of belligerency elements of alien Communist forces across the Yalu River into North Korea and massing a great concentration of possible reinforcing divisions with adequate supply behind the privileged sanctuary of the adjacent Manchurian border. A possible trap was thereby surreptitiously laid, calculated to encompass the destruction of the United Nations forces engaged in restoring order and the processes of civil government in the North Korean border area. oah.org
