Korean police chief holds a bomb retrieved from a communist saboteur. Arrested saboteurs surrounded by several policemen,line up in front of a building. One of the saboteur has a cut on his face. Another fugitive with a swollen eye and his face streaked with blood.
Invasion of Seoul, Korea by U.S. 1st Marine Division during the Korean War. U.S. Marines advance toward Seoul city after they cross the Han River. The marines fire guns at enemy positions. U.S. Air Force fighter airplanes drop bombs over ground targets. Smoke rises from the bombardment. U.S. Marines receive heavy artillery fire by the North Korean People's Army. Wounded marines are evacuated. The marines involved in street fight. They advance after the capture of Seoul. A marine reads an American newspaper about U.S. Marines advance in Seoul. UN (United Nations) troops advance in North Korea after securing Seoul. Tanks, jeeps and trucks loaded with marines move ahead. Soldiers march along a road.
Propaganda film made by North Korea. American soldiers, on sightseeing tours, and at rodeo. Public building in Seoul. Unemployed Koreans gambling and loafing in Bagado park, Seoul. Korean fortune teller in park. Market place in Seoul. Korean people looking at Japanese goods being sold. Slum sections of Seoul. Korean inspector searching private home. Sign on door "Contagious Disease". Sick children lying in streets. Sign "Give Us Rice". Idle factories. Wrecked factory equipment. American soldiers and Korean girls dancing and drinking in night clubs. Wild Korean Jazz band. Flashing night club signs. Night scene of Korean placing sign on wall that the Russians and Americans should leave Korea. Korean police walking threateningly toward the Korean. Atrocities committed by the South Koreans: Tortures and beating in cellars, dragging men and women behind trucks, hanging of many men and women at the Song Ack mountain in Kai Sung. Corpses lying on ground after being cut down from the trees. Men, women and children with hands tied behind their backs lying in shallow graves. Communists in South Korea revolting and killing police
United States President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Korea after the Manila Summit Conference. Various scenes from the Korean War. City ruins and debris in Seoul after the Korean War. Korean refugees flee on foot with their belongings. Tall modern buildings and factories in Seoul, Korea. Korean civilians gather along the canal as they hold a Korean flag in hand. President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with the Koreans. President Johnson inaugurates 'Johnson Hill' in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province (near Seoul) as a remembrance to his visit in Korea. He flies off in his helicopter back to Seoul after his visit to Gyeonggi Province.
United States Marines and 7th Infantry Division troops fight on street in Seoul, South Korea and recapture the city on September 26, 1950. A geographical map shows the map of Korea with the area that was occupied by United States troops beginning September 20, 1950. United States Marines and 7th Infantry Division troops fight in ruins of Seoul. Soldiers take shelter behind sandbag wall and fires at enemy. Soldiers fire from building. Soldiers and tanks advance on damaged Seoul Street. Troops take rest. Marine reads newspaper cutting headlined 'Marines enter Seoul Fight Reds in Street'.
Start of Korean War. South Korea is attacked by Communist North Korea. Map shows division of Korea and capital of North and South Korea as Pyongyang and Seoul. Animated arrows shows attack of North Korea to South Korea. Troops of Korean Republican Army in the South mobilizing in citiies and heading to the front. South Korean soldiers fire rifles and artillery from trenches and hills. Smoke is seen among mountain ranges during battle. Soldier looks through binoculars. Next scene is in the United States, in Lake Success, New York, where guards at the United Nations simultaneously raise flags of many nations at the United Nations. South Korean ambassador Chang Myon is seen at an Emergency meeting of the Security Council of the UN. Secretary of UN, Trygve Lie states the situation is a as threat to world peace and calls for acceptance of the U.S. demand to reestablish peace. All 9 members present raise their hands in acceptance. Next scene is back in South Korea. Scenes of displaced civilian refugees including women and children. Many are gathered together. Man helps old woman to walk. Two Korean refugee boys stand side by side as one child eats bread. Next scene is again at the United Nations. Empty seat of representative of the Soviet Union is shown. U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Warren Austin, speaks and asks that the UN members vote to to assist South Korea, repel the armed attack by North Korea, and bring peace. Camera shows Security Council delegates voting, as 7 out of 8 representatives raise their hands in acceptance.