Word: ils
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...sundered the Korean peninsula, leaving half allied with the Soviet Union, half with the U.S. Ready to reunify the country by force -- and, with help from Moscow, strong enough to dare it -- North Korea sent its tanks south across the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950. Communist leader Kim Il Sung hoped to destroy the U.S.-backed regime of South Korean President Syngman Rhee in a bold blitzkrieg. Kim nearly succeeded before U.S. troops and a hastily assembled United Nations force pushed the North Koreans back to the Yalu River on the Chinese border, prompting the intervention...
South Korean politicians unanimously support retaining U.S. troops. They note that while Seoul fields a 650,000-man army, North Korea's Soviet-equipped force is more than 1 million strong. Just as worrisome is Kim Il Sung's unpredictability, amply demonstrated in his complicity in terrorist acts like the bombing of a Korean Air Lines flight in 1987 that killed 115 people. Many fear he could become even more dangerous if he felt threatened by the kind of reforms that have toppled communist dictators in Eastern Europe...
Only 120 miles north of Seoul lies another world. There, from a drab, cheerless capital, the self-proclaimed "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung presides over an Orwellian state where the radios have dials that cannot be tuned and loudspeakers broadcast propaganda 20 hours a day into every home. Such totalitarianism is fast becoming extinct everywhere else in the world, but Kim not only survives, he is virtually worshiped by his people...
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...South Korea there is no doubt, despite serious unification talks, that North Korea's dictator Kim Il Sung still poses a threat. Within the South Korean military, there is disagreement over whether that nation's 650,000- member armed forces could turn back a North Korean invasion. Yet it is clear that the U.S. presence remains a deterrent. Cheney announced in Seoul that the U.S. plans to reduce the 43,000 troops now on the peninsula by only 5,000 over the next three years. This would include closing three U.S. air bases starting next year (leaving two). According...