At 6:30 one morning last week, two U.N. columns jumped off for the final assault on the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. The 5th Regiment of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division drove out of the mountains 16 miles south of Pyongyang. The R.O.K. 1st Division punched in from a point eight miles southeast of the city. The R.O.K. troops were commanded by Brigadier General Paik Sun Yup, a man with a grim ambition to be the first into Pyongyang. Five years ago the city's Communist rulers had sawed off the head of General Paik's...
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