Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Pyongyang radio, more than 700 Russian and European satellite technicians are already working in North Korea. Pyongyang propagandists dwell every day upon the affairs of the Soviet set: "Soviet Engineer Vandalenko is tirelessly restoring the Kim Chaik ironworks . . . Engineer Uburov is in charge at the Supung power plant, which is fast rising from the rubble...
...Chinese are getting the scraps of political influence in the new Red colony. Of North Korea's top four ministers, three are Soviet citizens, while the fourth, Premier Kim II Sung, is a Russian puppet of long standing. Of the seven Deputy Premiers, six belong to the Russian-controlled "Soviet faction," while only one pays allegiance to the "Yenan faction," as the Red China side is called. Of the 15-man Presidium, ten members are "Soviets" against only two "Yenans" and three local North Korean Reds. Even culturally, the Chinese are in eclipse (Pyongyang high-school students have...
Clark found that North Korea's two best commanders, Marshal Kim II Sung and General Nam II, had been officers in the Russian army in World War II, and that Russian antiaircraft units were actively fighting in Korea. He underrates neither the Russians nor the Chinese as adversaries, believes the Chinese learned fast and wound up with a stronger army than the one they started with. Never during the time he was in Korea, says Clark, did the U.N. command have the military means in Korea to win a decision in the field. Since Clark speaks only...
...Ronnie Kim's father: I extend respect for TIME'S restraint in its terse acknowledgement of the colonel's part in Ronnie's existence-no stones for daddy, who so richly deserves them, but only high praise for the superb Grace Kim, the Korean nurse who adopted Ronnie. However, I have not reached TIME'S commendable state of quiet in regard to the guilty. I feel a suffocating anger when I think of the anonymous colonel...
Last week the doctor chipped off a plaster cast that had held Grace Kim prisoner for nearly five months. Grace, he said, would limp for a long time to come, but eventually she would walk normally. As for her foster son, his back is still in a cast, but growing stronger every day. Smiling happily as he sat nearby in gay blue pajamas, five-year-old Ronnie Kim carefully assembled a toy out of sticks. "It's an airplane," he explained, "to take my mother to America some...