The Korean War - Incheon Amphibious Operation

In September, the US decided to take its chance at victory in Korea by seizing Seoul and cutting off the KPA through a massive amphibious invasion, and a subsequent mechanised offensive. Douglas MacArthur, as the one in charge of the United Nations Command, authorised Operation Chromite, in which almost 50,000 US and Korean troops landed in the city of Incheon, close to the old capital of Seoul. In the south, the demoralised and undersupplied KPA was subjected to a counter-offensive by reinforced, rearmed and resupplied UN troops. Success was found in both of these fronts, and the United Nations began an invasion of North Korea, aiming at unifying the peninsula under a western-aligned republic. Intelligence reports from the far north, however, presented a much more grim picture.