Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported them trapped. Last week the guerrillas were acting more like rats in a corncrib than like rats in a trap. They had attacked trains, convoys, supply dumps, command posts, burned or terrorized towns, driven thousands of Koreans from their homes. They seemed to be centrally directed by General Kim Chaek, the North Korean who commanded the June invasion and later became occupation commander of Seoul. R.O.K. intelligence officers had intercepted radio messages to Kim's headquarters, which they believed to be in the hills 20 miles north of the parallel...
Three whole R.O.K. divisions have been held in South Korea for anti-guerrilla work. In addition Police Chief Kim Tae Sun has detailed part of his 55,000 national police. The U.S. 187th Airborne Regiment, which had no jumping missions last week, was patrolling the Seoul-Pyongyang highway. Attached to the 187th for anti-guerrilla duty were the British 29th Brigade and the Philippine contingent...
...prominent Christian, Kang Nyang Ook, was a "carrot" from the start. Kang, pastor of the High Place Presbyterian Church and an old teacher of Kim II Sung's, organized the Christian People's Association, preached regularly on the evils of U.S. imperialism and the blessings of Soviet democracy. He gathered quite a following, and continued to have one even after some of the "white ones" threw a grenade into his house, killing his eldest son and two visiting pastors...
...Communist Party members. Between 1947 and 1950 the price of rice in Pyongyang almost quadrupled. "Every time the price of rice went up another ten won," said a Pyongyang "radish" last week, "the government would announce a new housing project, a new hospital plan or a new wing for Kim II Sung University. This may have been very poor economics, but for most of our people who have never heard of economics anyway, it was excellent psychology...
Trucks & a Teacher. Last week, two weeks after Pyongyang's liberation from the dual rule of the Russians and Kim II Sung, the people of the city had nothing to do. In the city hall, a former schoolteacher went falteringly about the business of pretending he was mayor. Two rickety sound trucks wheezed about the streets alternately playing martial music and exhorting the citizenry to get their city running again. But there was no evidence that anyone in town had any idea of what to do next or how to do it. Almost everyone who had held a position...