Word: eckert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nothing [seemed] to be happening. The only movement was of people carrying bags of rice along the road," Eckert said...
...Eckert also said he had gotten the impression that certain scenes the visitors had witnessed had been staged. One slide in particular showed women standing by a deserted shoreline with a basket of fish that Eckert suspected had been planted there to indicate bounty...
...very sad trip for me. I spent a long time in Korea during my 20s, and it was almost like going back to the 1960s without the hope [of economic development]," Eckert said...
...relating background information on the recent history of North Korea and South Korea, Eckert likened the division to "protracted McCarthyism...
...Take that atmosphere of tension and suspicion and magnify it a thousand times, then have it last for 40 years, and you get an idea of the tension that has built up, that is now just unfolding," Eckert said...