Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Lieut. Colonel Hess (220 missions in the Korean war) and his outfit were honored by President Syngman Rhee and General Kim Chung Yul, commander of the South Korean air force. Rhee gave them a presidential unit citation, and Hess was personally awarded an ox-traditional Korean prize for champion archers and fencers. The prize drew amiable jeers from Hess's compatriots. "Hey, colonel," yelled a tousle-headed pilot from Illinois, "all you need now is half an acre of land and you can settle down here for life...
...Kim Il Sung, Communism's titular leader of North Korea, has been out of the news for months. Last week he popped up with a couple of choice quotes broadcast by Radio Peking: 1) the war, said Kim, is "turning favorably" for the Reds, who will ultimately "drive the aggressors out of Korea"; 2) when the U.N. forces retreated from North Korea last year, the Reds, said Kim, found the bodies of 150 children in an icy cave. Kim supplied details : "After the Americans drove them in and bolted the door, these children were starved and frozen to death...
...Kim II Sung...
...such a rough time last September, the dough-feet now walked without opposition. The town was silent and empty. After a while an old man and some boys appeared, clapped their hands, cried: "O.K.! O.K.!"' On stone walls, there were Communist signs: "Mansei, People's Army! Mansei, Kim Il Sung...
...Kim is too Hollywood to be either a tense movie or a funny one. But there are still elephants and Lamas and red-jacketed British soldiers playing "John Peel," as they march through the dust; and our side wins in the end. There is still a bit of the call-of-Injuh flavor--enough to make the movie fun if you're in the mood...