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IOTL the US was nearly driven off of the Korean Peninsula in 1950 in the initial North Korean invasion of the South, but they managed to hold a perimeter in the very southern tip of South Korean and proceeded to hand on until invasions of the peninsula turned the North Korean flank and drove them back to the Yalu river. What if either the US+SK forces were unable to hold or even form the Pusan Perimeter and North Korea is able to clear the country of hostile forces before the US is able to land more ground forces at Inchon? Would it effectively end the war or would the US try and land? Could the North Korean forces defeat a US landing if they had no active fronts left on the peninsula by the time the US tries to show up? What impact would South Korean total defeat have if the war goes on?
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