Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...larger forces is one of the most difficult operations known, and one of the hardest on morale. Yet, U.S. forces, notably unaccustomed to such tactics, had handled themselves superbly. In a month of bitter fighting, they had gradually slowed up the North Korean offensive in the center of the peninsula...
West of Taejon, the Reds kept right on rolling. This week they launched a heavy attack on the unprotected far left flank of the U.S.-South Korean line, rolled unopposed down the west coast almost to the tip of the Korean peninsula. The Reds who took Taejon did not stay there long. They drove 20 miles to the southeast...
Southeast from Paektu runs the Chang-paik (Ever White) Range. Winding down along the east coast to the southern tip of the peninsula, this mountain backbone according to Korean folklore, changes direction 99 times...
...east, where the mountains rise abruptly out of the Japan Sea, there are few good harbors. On the western side of the peninsula, the mountains slope gently into the sea and natural harbors are numerous, but their usefulness is reduced by huge tides. Inchon, the port of Seoul is bedeviled by 29-foot tides. The best harbor is Pusan, now held by the US from which in 1592 the Koreans sent a turtle-shaped ship, the world's first ironclad, to beat the invading Japanese...
North Korea produces more than tigers and timber. It has 75% of all the industry on the peninsula and in the Musan fields of the far northeast lie Korea's largest iron deposits; from the northern mountains come gold, copper and most of the country's coal-anthracite, bituminous and lignite...