Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruthless application of terrorism in waging war. The attackers were ordered to seek out and kill the families of all South Vietnamese officers they could find, as well as police and government officials and their families. In Saigon, a band of Viet Cong seized several civilians, including a Korean newspaperman and the information officer of the Korean embassy, blindfolded them and summarily shot them in a Cholon street...
...draft board has a total registration of 21,908. It receives a call for approximately ten men each month. Miss Lawler said it has also seen a large increase in applications for I-O (conscientious objector) and 4-F (physically or mentally unfit) classifications over the time of the Korean conflict...
Organized into six groups, each commanded by a North Korean army captain, the assassination team members had trained for two years in guerrilla-warfare tactics, then practiced their assignment for 15 days in a mock-up model of the Blue House erected in their base at Wonsan. Setting out on foot to slip through the snowy DMZ, each of the 31 wore an overcoat, black sneakers and a woollen winter cap and carried 66 lbs. of equipment, including a submachine gun, a pistol, a dagger, eight hand grenades and one antitank grenade...
...Korea's independence, slipping out of China's orbit and edging closer to Russia. To show that independence, North Korea became the first Communist country to offer to send troops to North Viet Nam to aid Ho Chi Minh; Ho declined, except for accepting some 50 North Korean pilot instructors. Kim has built around him self a cult of personality that is exceeded in the Communist world only by Mao Tse-tung's, and he personally sets the tone of toughness and arrogance that shows up so regularly in North Korea's dealings with the rest...
...force of 35,000 men and a navy 10,500 seamen strong. In addition, a people's militia of 1,200,000 men and women stands trained and ready to fight. But this muscle has been built at a tremendous cost to the welfare of North Koreans: the military takes some 30% of the nation's budget. With more than 650 planes in its air force, North Korea has an air capability far superior to anything North Viet Nam ever possessed, and North Korean pilots know how to fly their...