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S. Korea to mark anniversary of historic operation with reenactment
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will commemorate the 60th anniversary of a historic military operation in the Yellow Sea that shifted the momentum of the 1950-53 Korean War, the Navy here said Thursday.
About 1,100 people, including Korean War veterans and active senior military officers, will be on hand next Thursday to celebrate the Incheon Landing, an amphibious operation led by the U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur on Sept. 15, 1950. The landing, executed about three months into the war, helped change the tide for South Korea and the U.N. forces, and liberated the South Korean capital of Seoul from North Korea two weeks later.
The commemoration ceremony will be held on the amphibious landing ship Dokdo in waters off Wolmi Island, about 60 kilometers west of Seoul. The Navy said it also plans to invite about 600 civilians and students to help raise their awareness of national security.
The 20-minute reenactment of the landing will feature two landing ships, a dozen boats, 16 armored vehicles and 68 South Korean Marines, the Navy said.
During the actual landing, 75,000 troops and 261 warships were involved. Aside from the U.S. and South Korea, six different countries sent warships.
South Korea has annually reenacted the landing since 2008. Last year, North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper blasted the ceremony as "a provocation" to Pyongyang and accused Seoul of harboring ambitions to invade North Korea.
The two Koreas are still technically at war because the Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
About 1,100 people, including Korean War veterans and active senior military officers, will be on hand next Thursday to celebrate the Incheon Landing, an amphibious operation led by the U.S. Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur on Sept. 15, 1950. The landing, executed about three months into the war, helped change the tide for South Korea and the U.N. forces, and liberated the South Korean capital of Seoul from North Korea two weeks later.
The commemoration ceremony will be held on the amphibious landing ship Dokdo in waters off Wolmi Island, about 60 kilometers west of Seoul. The Navy said it also plans to invite about 600 civilians and students to help raise their awareness of national security.
The 20-minute reenactment of the landing will feature two landing ships, a dozen boats, 16 armored vehicles and 68 South Korean Marines, the Navy said.
During the actual landing, 75,000 troops and 261 warships were involved. Aside from the U.S. and South Korea, six different countries sent warships.
South Korea has annually reenacted the landing since 2008. Last year, North Korea's Rodong Sinmun newspaper blasted the ceremony as "a provocation" to Pyongyang and accused Seoul of harboring ambitions to invade North Korea.
The two Koreas are still technically at war because the Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
