By Lavannya, Taarini, and Shaan
Right after the meeting began delegates started to give their views on the situation at hand, tensions rising between North and South Korea. In the meeting, there were 6 moderated caucuses and 2 changes of scenes.
Once the meeting began, few delegates asked for a motion and gave their thoughts on the situation. For instance, Edward Almond and Dwight wanted peace at first but if it wasn’t an option then they would resort to violence. Cho Bong Am similarly wanted peace to stop the spread of communism. On the other hand, Douglas, Rhee, and Winston asked for a motion; Douglas wanted to discuss the 38th parallel border, Rhee wanted to speak about NK’s military, and Winston’s motion was, “is peace an option or not”. Rhee and Douglas’ motion got denied as there were far too few delegates willing to discuss those topics. However, Winston’s motion passed and there were 7 speakers ready to discuss the topic. First off, Winston himself stated that peace would be difficult, said that he was close to Stalin, and that he wanted the military to be prepared for any event that might occur. Rhee wanted military pressure on the north, Truman wanted peace first unlike others, and hoped for NK to believe in democracy. Douglas: desired peace too and wished to stop NK’s terrorist funding. If they don’t agree war will be waged. Robert wants troops to be prepared on the 38th parallel border, Shin Sang Mo wants to further strengthen SK’s military for self-defense, and Chung too wants peace but worst case has to resort to violence. Subsequently, a new motion was passed by Truman about war plans. After this motion and discussion there was a change in events, Seoul had been captured, The Korean’s People Army (KPA) went through, and struck the 38th parallel. Later, Rhee’s motion passed and was about the evacuation of civilians. There was another moderate caucus which was about the event, post the capturing of Seoul. Then, there was another Moderate caucus for the war plans and how many troops to send to SK.
Afterwards, there was a public communique, a public show of support from the UK. Finally, before lunch, two moderate caucuses took place and delegates spoke about how they will send aid and what kinds of aid to SK. When the second session was about to end, there was a sudden change in events, and SK got the advantage of the situation. SK had possession of Seoul and even a bit of NK.
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