Word: koreanness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Late on Wednesday afternoon the searchers made their first contact. In a clearing atop a mountain about three miles from the stranded submarine they found the corpses of 11 North Koreans. At first officials in Seoul speculated that they had committed suicide rather than surrender: all were shot in the head. But it turned out they had also been shot in the abdomen and from behind with a rifle. Among the dead were the submarine commander, a colonel, his deputy and the navigator. South Korean officials suspect the best-trained infiltrators in the group had killed the crew in order...
Seven armed North Koreans were tracked down and killed in separate clashes the next day. One intruder, however, was captured alive. Under interrogation, Lee Kwang Soo at first refused to talk, saying his family in the North would suffer for it. Then, after downing a few drinks of soju, the local gin, he became voluble but also contradictory. According to his latest account, Lee was a 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...
Among those still at large, Lee claims, are three "special commandos" wearing South Korean army uniforms and helmets and carrying rifles, grenades and pistols. The South Korean military has warned villagers in the area to be alert. Well-trained operatives like these, categorized by the South as "communist guerrillas" rather than civilian spies, can travel up to 6 m.p.h. and are willing to attack villagers to get food. It is possible they have taken refuge with...
...Seoul and its ally, the U.S., the sub is an intelligence prize: very little is known about the primitive North Korean subs that patrol the coast, and the Pentagon may now learn how to track their acoustic signatures. Still, South Korea is rightly protesting this raid as a violation of the armistice and the spirit of the post-cold war times. Some Koreans wonder whether President Kim Jong Il has a firm grip on things in the North or if his military might be getting out of hand. Analysts say it's more like business as usual. Pyongyang refused...
...elderly and retired U.S. Army colonel, is anything but retiring on the subject of trust and betrayal. He marched up to Capitol Hill last week to try anew to make Congress and the nation face the fact that American soldiers had been left behind at the end of the Korean War--to die, to be executed, to be used as guinea pigs in "Nazi-style" medical experiments. Such suggestions have often been raised but rarely credited. Corso had tried to give his account to the Senate in 1992, but got nowhere. Last week, backed by newly declassified intelligence reports, memoranda...