War Stories with Oliver North

Season 2003

Episode 14: Desperate Battle for the Pusan Perimeter

Communist North Korea expected little resistance when they invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950. Barely five years after the end of World War II, this bold Soviet backed land grab caught America and the world off guard. Within days, the first hastily assembled U.S. Army unit, known as Task Force Smith, shipped out from Japan. The troops were under trained and ill equipped. In a rare interview with its commander, retired Brigadier General Charles “Brad” Smith gives a blow-by-blow account of the first bloody battle of the Korean War.