Meanwhile, in China, the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese military issued an order of the day to China’s armed forces accusing the US of “wrecking and obstructing” the Korean truce talks and preparing for a new war. He also told newsmen earlier in the day that he believed the UN could win the Korean War on the battlefield if truce talks collapse. Bradley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the comment at a Korean airport as he prepared to fly back to Tokyo after a two day tour of the front. General Omar Bradley said that the United Nations had enough men in Korea to stop any possible Communist attack. As of Tuesday, a fifth day had passed without a Communist reply to Ridgway’s proposal. Unless the Reds choose to resume the cease-fire conference on mutually satisfactory terms, he note said, they face the prospect of a terrible winter and more military reverses. “The Communists must realize that the time for bluffing is over,” he said in a reflection on the note. The UN command again sounded the warning while waiting for a Communist reply to its proposal to shift the suspended truce talks from Kaesong to Songhyon, eight miles to the southeast, in the middle of the western front’s “no man’s land.” Supreme UN commander Ridgway made the proposal in a formal note to North Korean premier Kim Il Sung. The United Nations command told the Communists to stop bluffing and make their choice between an “honorable armistice” an all-out war.
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