Episode 14 – China Enters:

Here, the French journalist, Philippe Daudy, addresses the Americans’ use of the term, “gook” in the Korean War. Also in this episode: Some US military leaders are concerned that the US public will not understand that ideas of “winning” and “losing” are not exactly applicable to a limited war, like Korea. The UN army moves further into North Korea in October, finding evidence that the North Korean leadership had ordered the killings of hundreds of “traitors” as they withdrew, much like the Rhee government did to its own citizenry in the summer of 1950. The airborne drop on Sunchon in North Korea was meant to trap retreating North Koreans, but the UN forces did not know that the NKPA and its leadership had already escaped to the northern border with China. The US 10th Corps was sent from Incheon to the northeastern North Korean port of Wonsan in order to envelope retreating NKPA, but it also was too late. Their new objective was to advance to the Chinese border. The US 8th Army and 10th Corps were now separated and advancing north. The People’s Liberation Army (Chinese Army) were already waiting for them. 14 days of Chinese attacks push the 8th Army back. US units had identified that the enemy was now Chinese, but MacArthur continued to believe that the Chinese were not there.