Peak of Mount Mudeung Mountain climbers walk on the peak of Mount Mudeung in South Jeolla Province on Nov. 2, 2019, in this photo provided by a Yonhap reader, as authorities opened it to the public, the second of its kind since May. Citizens’ access to the peak has been restricted since a military unit was stationed at the peak in 1966. (Yonhap)
Was that one of the mountains where communists tried to hold out during the Korean War (after the Incheon Landing)? Seems like I read something about that in General Paik’s book…
Flyingsword
4 years ago
That was Jirisan and the Joello do communist. Joello nam do still very left wing today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rat_Killer
MG Paik conducted the largest anti-guerrilla operation of the war, sardonically labeled RAT KILLER.21 The three-phase operation in southwestern Korea began on 2 December 1951 when Task Force Paik began shrinking a 163-mile perimeter around Chiri-san. Loudspeaker teams of the EUSA 1st Loudspeaker & Leaflet Company broadcast surrender appeals. “We were used all around the Chiri-san perimeter by ROKs,” recalled Corporal (CPL) John A. Squicciarini from Brooklyn, NY. “And, our surrender broadcasts were very effective.”23 After twelve days 1,612 guerrillas had been killed and 1,842 captured. Then, the hunt was shifted north to Cholla Pukto Province into the mountains around Chonju. Seventeen days later, an estimated 4,000 had been killed and another 4,000 captured. Then, in a surprise move MG Paik returned to Chiri-san to envelop the area in two concentric control rings. By the end of RAT KILLER in mid-March 1952, TF Paik had killed or captured 19,000 guerrillas and bandits.24 This successful operation led to his promotion to Lieutenant General (LTG) and the ROKA transformation of I Corps into the new II Corps. In July 1952 LTG Paik was appointed to Army Chief of Staff the first time.25
Was that one of the mountains where communists tried to hold out during the Korean War (after the Incheon Landing)? Seems like I read something about that in General Paik’s book…
That was Jirisan and the Joello do communist. Joello nam do still very left wing today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rat_Killer
MG Paik conducted the largest anti-guerrilla operation of the war, sardonically labeled RAT KILLER.21 The three-phase operation in southwestern Korea began on 2 December 1951 when Task Force Paik began shrinking a 163-mile perimeter around Chiri-san. Loudspeaker teams of the EUSA 1st Loudspeaker & Leaflet Company broadcast surrender appeals. “We were used all around the Chiri-san perimeter by ROKs,” recalled Corporal (CPL) John A. Squicciarini from Brooklyn, NY. “And, our surrender broadcasts were very effective.”23 After twelve days 1,612 guerrillas had been killed and 1,842 captured. Then, the hunt was shifted north to Cholla Pukto Province into the mountains around Chonju. Seventeen days later, an estimated 4,000 had been killed and another 4,000 captured. Then, in a surprise move MG Paik returned to Chiri-san to envelop the area in two concentric control rings. By the end of RAT KILLER in mid-March 1952, TF Paik had killed or captured 19,000 guerrillas and bandits.24 This successful operation led to his promotion to Lieutenant General (LTG) and the ROKA transformation of I Corps into the new II Corps. In July 1952 LTG Paik was appointed to Army Chief of Staff the first time.25