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Word: kangnung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just after midnight last Wednesday, a taxi chugging along the Kangnung highway on the east coast of South Korea threw its headlights briefly on a group of young men sitting by the roadside. The area is about 75 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone and has more than once been the scene of infiltration by North Korean spies and saboteurs. Taxi driver Lee Jin Gyu noted the short haircuts and similar clothing on the young men and began to wonder about them. After dropping off his passenger, he drove back to the spot. The men had left, but he took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SPIES FROM THE SEA | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...member of the crew of the sub, which left North Korean waters on Sept. 14 with seven infiltrators and 19 crew. Their mission, he says, was to spy on an airport, radar installations and civilian preparedness. On Sept. 15 they put three men ashore to observe the Kangnung airport while the sub cruised back and forth along the coastline. They picked up the three spies last Tuesday and were intending to head for home when the sub ran aground on the reef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SPIES FROM THE SEA | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

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