China touted American casualties in the Korean War as a warning against “stand[ing] on the wrong side of history” in response to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s trip to the United States.
“According to China’s records, the enemy forces lost 36,000 troops to the Battle of Lake Changjin, including 24,000 U.S. troops that contained an entire U.S. regimen[t],” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said Friday. “Walton H. Walker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Army, lost his life after his truck rolled over in an accident. Then-U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson called the result of the battle ‘the longest retreat in U.S. military history.
Yoon anchored his comments in a commemoration of the American defense of South Korea in 1950, when North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung attacked the Republic of Korea in a bid to subjugate the entire peninsula. U.S. forces, leading a United Nations coalition, intervened from Japan and proceeded to drive the North Korean troops back from South Korean territory to the brink of total destruction in the far north of the peninsula.
That struggle is known in the U.S. as the Battle of Chosin Reservoir. The unexpected and massive Chinese intervention began “a two-week-long bloodbath pitting 30,000 U.S., ROK, and British troops against 120,000 Chinese soldiers,” as a U.S. Marine Corps account recalls. With outnumbered U.S. forces at risk of being surrounded and destroyed, a doomed U.S.
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