An Update on the Korean War and its Refugees
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General Information
Source:
Resource Type:
Video News Report
Creator:
The Camel News
Caravan
James Fleming
Copyright:
Event Date:
Air/Publish Date:
08/18/1950
08/18/1950
Copyright Date:
Clip Length
NBCUniversal Media,
LLC.
1950
00:02:22
Description
NBC reports that UN forces win back three miles of lost terrain and exclusive footage shows the largest
refugee camp in Korea, with 40,000 residents.
Keywords
Korean War, Military, Victory, Taegu, Pohang, Refugee Camp, Evacuation, Mines, Refugees, Relief,
International Committee of The Red Cross, United Nations, Cold War, Korea
Citation
MLA
"An Update on the Korean War and its Refugees." James Fleming, correspondent. The Camel News
© 2008-2015 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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Caravan. NBCUniversal Media. 18 Aug. 1950. NBC Learn. Web. 23 August 2015
APA
Fleming, J. (Reporter). 1950, August 18. An Update on the Korean War and its Refugees. [Television
series episode]. The Camel News Caravan. Retrieved from
https://highered.nbclearn.com/portal/site/HigherEd/browse/?cuecard=1704
CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE
"An Update on the Korean War and its Refugees" The Camel News Caravan, New York, NY: NBC
Universal, 08/18/1950. Accessed Sun Aug 23 2015 from NBC Learn:
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Transcript
An Update on the Korean War and its Refugees
JAMES FLEMING, anchor: Good evening. This is James Fleming, and here’s the news. The turnabout on
the Korean front today can only be called dramatic. Many feared this might be a Black Friday for the
United Nation forces, but we’ve come back with a vengeance. It would be unwise to be overly optimistic
too early but tonight at least, we can report, victories.
First, we’ve gone back to thrust twelve miles north of Taegu, won back three miles of lost terrain. While
23 miles south of the temporary capital, army and marines cut in half a crack North Korean division in
tough fighting.
On the east coast, we’re consolidating our re-won position at Pohang. Let’s not forget that there are still
30,000 of the enemy north of Taegu though, and this fact is one that must be reckoned with.
Now for exclusive films. They show the largest refugee camp in Korea, and tonight the news is this is
only the beginning. For this camp we see now through the lenses of NBC’s Charles and Eugene Jones is
only 10 miles from Taegu. And there of course Taegu itself is in the center of the fighting. There are 40
thousand camped in this valley alone.
Many of them have followed the South Korean retreat all the way from Seoul, some from the 38th
Parallel. Now they’re being joined by more hundreds of thousands as they flee again into the shrinking
perimeter of safety, near Pusan. Korean National Red Cross headquarters in Taegu have provided the
refugees what little it could; now even the Red Cross officials are forced to run. Finding makeshift
lodgings in camps as crude as the one they are about to inspect. The emergency capital is being emptied of
all non-essential civilians as a safety measure to avoid confusion in this fighting area, that means
evacuation of more than half a million.
The evacuation is a military necessity. Peasants were walking on the mines planted for “Reds.” The
communists were infiltrating in civilian costume so now the great threats underway. Wrinkled old men in
high net hats, women and children with straw sleeping nets, on foot, on trains, the peasants jammed the
transport lines. Their eyes steady, looking back at the rice fields always and at life they left behind.
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Ahead: a UN relief organization getting ready to care for one and a half million refugees.
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