<P> At dawn on Sunday, 25 June 1950, the Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parallel behind artillery fire . The KPA justified its assault with the claim that ROK troops attacked first and that the KPA were aiming to arrest and execute the "bandit traitor Syngman Rhee". Fighting began on the strategic Ongjin peninsula in the west . There were initial South Korean claims that they captured the city of Haeju, and this sequence of events has led some scholars to argue that the South Koreans fired first . </P> <P> Whoever fired the first shots in Ongjin, within an hour, North Korean forces attacked all along the 38th parallel . The North Koreans had a combined arms force including tanks supported by heavy artillery . The South Koreans had no tanks, anti-tank weapons or heavy artillery to stop such an attack . In addition, South Koreans committed their forces in a piecemeal fashion and these were routed in a few days . </P> <P> On 27 June, Rhee evacuated from Seoul with some of the government . On 28 June, at 2 am, the South Korean Army blew up the Hangang Bridge across the Han River in an attempt to stop the North Korean army . The bridge was detonated while 4,000 refugees were crossing it and hundreds were killed . Destroying the bridge also trapped many South Korean military units north of the Han River . In spite of such desperate measures, Seoul fell that same day . A number of South Korean National Assemblymen remained in Seoul when it fell, and forty - eight subsequently pledged allegiance to the North . </P> <P> On 28 June, Rhee ordered the massacre of suspected political opponents in his own country . </P>

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