5th Cavalry broke out of the Pusan Perimeter by crossing the Naktong on September 26, advancing to Sanju and north to Hamchung and south to Osan-dong, and seizing Chongo, Chochiwon and Chouni.

Crossing the Imjin on October 2, the 5th Cavalry then crossed the 38th parallel on October 9.

Lead by the 5th Regiment, the 1st Cavalry Division entered Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea on October 19.

By October 25 the North Korean Army had been nearly destroyed when the veteran Chinese guerilla armies made their first probing attack on advancing 8th Army units.

With this, the war took a terrible new turn, dragging on to a Cease-Fire on July 27, 1953. Entering the third millennium, that is still the situation.