ABSTRACT
Total US ground units strength at this time stood at approximately 45,000 troops. The combat strength of the Army of the ROK at the same time numbered 47,000. The troop strength of the KPA probably stood then at no more than 70,000. This disparity does not take into account the UN Command’s complete control of the air and the sea lanes by this time, nor of its greatly superior armour and artillery. These odds apparently did little to daunt the North Korean high command. Kim Il Sung let it be known that he
expected Pusan to fall by 15 August, the fifth anniversary of the surrender of Japan and a date celebrated both North and South as the day of liberation from the Japanese yoke.
