While North Korea continued to hurl furious but ineffective attacks at the Susan perimeter, General MacArthur readied the counterstroke that was to reverse the course of the war an amphibious assault in his enemy's rear at the port city of Intone, southwest of Seoul. On September 15 a Marine division swarmed ashore after preparatory bombardment by aircraft and naval guns. An Army division followed. Simultaneously, the Eighth Army by now a well-equipped and cohesive force broke …showed first 75 words of 808 total…

…showed last 75 words of 808 total…In the 1980s, there was no lessening of tensions, but also no serious move toward armed confrontation. North Korean President Kim IL Sung offered a unification plan that was rejected by South Korea. Kim also berated the United States for a plan to install medium range nuclear missiles in the South. But he renewed his call for a peace treaty with the Americans, probably desiring to decrease his dependence on the Soviet Union and China.