With troops of the 1st Cavalry Division when they entered Pyongyang was TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin. This is his report on conditions in the first Communist capital to be liberated by the forces of the free world:
THE people of Pyongyang cheered, waving South Korean flags, British flags, Chinese Nationalist flags and improvised U.N. flags which had been designed from hearsay. At Seoul, which had been devastated by both the retreating Communists and the U.N. assault, the people had shown a restrained enthusiasm for their liberators. The people of Pyongyang were staging the most spontaneous demonstration seen in any Asiatic city since...
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