The next assault was made by the 9th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Division. It was a short-lived triumph, for the following day the North Koreans recaptured the mountain in a fierce counterattack. It succeeded in capturing most, but not all, of the ridge after a week of fierce fighting that at times was hand to hand. Leading the initial attacks was the 36th ROK Regiment. Their mission was to seize a ridge of hills used by the North Koreans as observation posts to call in artillery fire on a UN supply road. It was a joint operation conducted by South Korean and the U.S. It began as an attempt by UN forces to seize a ridge of hills which they believed were being used as observation posts to call in artillery fire on a UN supply road. One bloody ground battle took place from August 18 to September 5, 1951. UN and communist forces jockeyed for position along this line, clashing in several relatively small but intense and bloody battles. The opposing armies faced each other across a line which ran with many twists and turns along the way from east to west, through the middle of the Korean peninsula, a few miles north of the 38th parallel.
By the summer of 1951, the Korean War had reached a stalemate as peace negotiations began at Kaesong.
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