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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nINTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF MAINTAINING\nA BEACHHEAD IN SOUTH KOREA\nHUMAN\nLIBRARY\nPROBLEM\nUNITED\nTo estimate and enumerate the advantages and dis 3\nREVER\nadvantages of holding a UN beachhead in South Korea.*\nESTIMATE\n1. The maintenance of a United Nations beachhead in South\nKorea would have the following major strategic and military\nimplications for the United Nations and the United States:\na. Maintenance of a beachhead would have the following\nmilitary advantages:\n(1) Full attainment of the stated Communist objective\nin Korea would be denied.\n(2) The loss of US military prestige which would\nresult from a withdrawal would be avoided.\n(3) The continued commitment of major Chinese\nCommunist forces in Korea and Manchuria\nwould restrict the Chinese Communist capabi-\nlity for rapid consolidation of China, for large\nscale expansion in mainland Southeast Asia,\nand for resisting invasion elsewhere on the\nmainland of China.\n(4) The Soviet Union would be obliged to continue the\nsupply of material in support of Communist forces\nin Korea.\n* In the event of full-scale Soviet intervention in Korea, it is\nestimated that it would be impossible for UN forces to main-\ntain the beachhead,\nSECRET"
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