In early July, General Emmett O'Donnell Jr. requested permission to incinerate five North Korean cities. He proposed that MacArthur announce that UN forces would employ the firebombing methods that "brought Japan to its knees" during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The announcement would warn the leaders of North Korea "to get women and children and other noncombatants the hell out."[5] According to O'Donnell, MacArthur responded, "No...