Drawing the line in Korea was to be one of the few things Truman and MacArthur would agree on. Almost immediately, MacArthur, as was his want, exceeded his authority by ordering the bombing of North Korean airfields. He thought of himself as a sovereign power in the Pacific; the President and Joint Chiefs had hegemony in Europe, in his mind, but not in Asia. That was his. Essentially he believed himself above the authority of his commander in chief.
