Husky 1,000 pound bombs hurtle from this U.S. Far East Air Forces B-29 "Superfortress" of the 19th Bomb Group toward a target somewhere beneath the cloud layers in North Korea.

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During the war North Korea became one of the most heavily bombed countries in history. The initial bombing attack on North Korea was approved on the fourth day of the war, 29 June 1950, by General Douglas MacArthur immediately upon request by the commanding general of the Far East Air Forces, George E. Stratemeyer.

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Major bombing began in late July. U.S. airpower conducted 7,000 close support and preventative airstrikes that month, which helped slow the North Korean rate of advance to two miles a day. On 12 August 1950, the USAF dropped 625 tons of bombs on North Korea; two weeks later, the daily tonnage increased to some 800 tons.

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From June through October, official US policy was to pursue precision bombing aimed at communication centers (railroad stations, marshaling yards, main yards, and railways) and industrial facilities deemed vital to war making capacity. The policy was the result of debates after World War II, in which US policy rejected the mass civilian bombings that had been conducted in the later stages of World War II as unproductive and immoral. In early July, General Emmett O'Donnell Jr. requested permission to fire-bomb five North Korean cities. He proposed that MacArthur announce that the UN would employ the fire-bombing methods that "brought Japan to its knees".

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 The announcement would warn the leaders of North Korea

"to get women and children and other non-combatants the hell out!"

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Source: Wikipedia