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General MacArthur's Special Communique on Chinese Communist
Intervention, November 6, 1950
The military position of the United Nations forces in the western
sector of North Korea is now sufficiently stabilized and information on
enemy unit identifications adequately evaluated to permit me to put the
situation growing out of the last few days' operations in proper per-
spective.
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, resulting in raising the number of enemy prisoners of war in
our hands to well over 135,000, which, with other losses amounting to over
200,000, brought casualties to 335,000, representing a fair estimate of
North Korean total military strength.
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 law-
lessness 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 grent concentration of possible reinforcing divisions with
adequate supply behind the privileged sanctuar / of the adjacent Manchurian
border.
A possible trap was thereby surreptitiously laid, calculated to en-
compass the destruction of the United Nations forces engaged in restoring
order and the processes of civil government in the North Korean border area.
This potential danger was avoided with minimum losses only by the
timely detection and skillful maneuvering of the United Nations commonder
responsible for that sector who, with great perspicacity and skill, com-
pletely revised the movement of his forces in order to achieve the greater
integration of tactical power necessitated by the new situation, and avert
any possibility of a great military reverse.
The present situation, therefore, is this:
While the North Korean forces with which we were initially engaged
have been destroved or rendered impotent for military action, a new and
fresh amy now faces us, backed up by a possibility of large alien reserves
and adequate supply within easy reach to the enemy but beyond the limits of
our present sphere of military action.
whether and to what extent these reserves will be moved forward to
reinforce units now committed remains to be seen and is a motter of the
gravest international significance.
Our present mission is limited to the destruction of those forces
now arrayed against us in North Korea, with a view to achieving the United
Nations ? objective to bring unity and peace to the Korean nation and people.
-- The New York Times, November 6, 1950