Word: kae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mostly U.S. military police, chosen for their size and brawn to tower over the smaller North Korean MPs. When they pass each other, there are spates of slanging, spitting and even slugging. Each side delivers choice epithets in the other's language. "Bastard!" shrills a North Korean. "Kae seki [son of a bitch]," mutters...
...give Hanoi a tactical and propaganda advantage by permitting the talks to be held in a disadvantageous setting. The last time that happened, he recalls only too well, was in 1951, when preliminary talks on ending the Korean War were held behind Communist lines in the village of Kae-song. U.S. officials were forced to thread through a hostile crowd and display white flags when they went to the table. The chief American negotiator, Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, was seated on a chair markedly lower than the one used by his North Korean counterpart, and thus was compelled...
...Panmunjom-a site a half-mile in diameter set up by the armistice, and the only place where the two sides formally come together-hostility is barely controlled. Red guards and U.S. military policemen shove and elbow each other for the right of way on sidewalks. Communists growl, "Kae seki [son of a bitch]" as they pass, spit at them or step on their toes. Reacting to such petty provocations, one 6-ft., 200-lb. U.S. Navy yeoman strolled up to a North Korean guardhouse and casually leaned against the door while the angry Communist soldiers inside tried in vain...