The President stared at the map. "They're bringing bulldozers into seven?" he remarked, "They're digging there? Hit it again! Use all our remaining bombs. Hit where they're digging and on the opposite side. Do it NOW!"
"In daylight, Mr. President?" the Air Force Commander asked.
"NOW!" The President snapped. "Give them full air cover! Everything we've got, if we have to. But hit that command post again, NOW!"
"Yes, sir!" the officer snapped. Two hours later he came back. "Mission carried out, sir!" he announced, "Reconnaisance plane reports there was a horrendous collapse during the bombardment. Whatever was down there is gone! The North Koreans have given up digging and are fleeing. You got him, sir! If he was down there and they were trying to dig him out YOU GOT HIM!"
"He was down there!" The President assured, "He was down there."
For the next two days the territory held by The North Koreans shrunk more and more until only a circle a little more than twenty-five miles around surrounding the capitol was in their hands. The President called General Hayes.
"General," he ordered, "back off for a day. Then I want Pyongyng flattened and burned. Don't use heavy ordinance. I don't want to destroy their underground bunkers, the shelters, but I want everything on the surface reduced to rubble!"
"Understood, Mr. President!" the General answered.
The following day the capitol of North Korea literally disappeared and the President ordered a halt in the bombing again. Finally about ten p.m. Washington time he got a call. "It's a general Dagg," his secretary announced, "he's being patched through by General Hayes. He says he's in charge now, and would like to know your terms. He says he has one final weapon that was stored in the capitol, a very nasty weapon. If his people are not to be treated with honor, he would use it. But if they could expect some kind of decency he would not take half of Korea with him."
The President looked to Hayes. "Has he got a weapon?" he asked.
Hayes shook his head. "He's bluffing, sir!" he insisted.
The President nodded. "Put him through," he ordered. "I'll give him some terms."

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