The War Between the North and the South in 1950

The summer of 1950 saw the North Korean army sweeping southward as Cummings puts it with one humiliating defeat after another for American forces. By now, President Re's National Guidance Alliance went from being a re-education network that we discussed last time into more of an actual death machine. Forced evacuations and village burnings of any suspected leftist or communist sympathizer towns were in vogue. ROK officers exploited their own men and beat them mercilessly for infractions.