NORTH KOREAN AND CHINESE COMMUNIST MILITARY ACTIVITY IN THE SEOUL-P'YONGGANG AREA.

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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 26, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ` U REPORT NO.
COUNTRY
INFORMATION REPORT
Korea/Cihina
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DATE DISTR.
26 March 1951
SUBJECT
North Korean and Chinese Cocnntunist Military
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ACQUIRED
Activity in the Seoul-P?yonggang Area.
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DATE OF
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8 February -12 March 1951
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1. About 12 March inYongdu=?ri, Seoul,, the People's Committee called a mass
meeting and ordered those assembled to evacuate to Ch'ongsan--yon
(12707, 37-58). Of the 150 who were forced to leave, all but 20 escaped
en route and returned to Seoul. On 9 March, 10 North Korean troops were
seen escorting 200 young women northward towards Tongduch'on (127@039
37-56).
2. On 8 March the 3,000 refugees from Seoul in the mountains at Ch$ongsann
were told by the North Korean police and officials, who had entered Seoul
early in January, that they were only temporarily evacuated for strategic
reasons, since by the end of March the North Koreans and Chinese Communists
would surround Seoul and the UN troops. A battalion of North Korean
troops in the area was digging trenches. The refugees agreed that the
Communists arrested and killed relatively few this time when leaving Seoul,
3. On 7 March a small number of North Korean troops were digging trenches
on the road half way between Yonch'on (l27-05, 3806) and Ch'orwon (127-12,
38?15). On 6 March a company of North Korean troops was reconstructing a railway bridge over the Eiant' anch' on at Chongok (127-04, 38-01)., about
500 meters from the original bridge. The pedestrian and vehicle bridge
alongside the railroad bridge was completed on 2 March. The railroad
bridge was to be completed by 15 March.
4, On 2 March, 3,000 North Korean and Chinese Communist mixed troops were " -in
tunnels in the hill 50 meters behind the Christian church in P'yonggang
(127-18* 38"25). Troops and local police eat at neighboring homes and
work in offices in the tunnels at night? On 28 February rice and grain
were collected as taxes in kind, and stockpiled in the pinewoods and
covered with pine branches on the slopes of Unma.san (12720,, 3828) in
the area nine kilometers northeast of Ptyonggang.
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Communist wounded were treated in a large dugout by a staff of 40 medical
corpsmen, including doctors. About 4,000 Chinese (mnunists were in the area.
From 8 February to 2 March twenty-eight villagers were conscripted to
carry supplies and wounded Chinese Communists from Taegwang-ni (127-06,
38-l1) to Masan'ni (126-36, 3832), where 30 of the 40 houses had been
destroyed by UN air-raids. Near the village a large number of Chinese
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6. On 2 February 2,500 troops of the North Korean Wand 897*Units were at
Maehoemri, (12?a30, 3827) with a small number of guerrilla troops and
40 women nurses,, The troops confiscated 70 oxen for supply transport.
The 544 Unit engaged in liaison (sic)* work between P lyonggang,,
Hoeyang (12737, 38-b2), Kumhwa (12727, 3817), and Hwach'on (127-43,
3806)
7. The North Korean troops on 10 February placed destroyed planes around the
Pyonggang airfield, covering them with a few branches. The UN planes
bombed these on 10 and 11 February. Empty drums and damaged vehicles were
arranged along the road near Yongrnidkogae (12721, 3823), eight kilometers
south of P'yonggang, as dumz targets for UN planes. On 4 March UN planes
bombed dumr artillery positions constructed with tree trunks at the foot
of the hill along the road two kilometers south of Taegwangni.
8. On 10 February five UIS. four Turkish, and five ROK war prisoners, guarded
by North Korean military police and moving north at Saedunji (127-58, 38?26),
were spotted by UN planes. The U.S. prisoners swung both hands in the air
left to right, for which they were disciplined by the military police. They
were taken into a small house and fed a handful of cereal each,,
25X1 A * -Comment. Informants were unable to further identify these units
they are possibly signal corps units.
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