Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Joint Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom seemed an even less fruitful court of resort. Meeting there the day after Pueblo's seizure, as they have for more than 14 years of sterile harangue, the U.S. and North Korean representatives exchanged angry denunciations...
...Rear Admiral John V. Smith, son of the late Marine General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, protested both the Pueblo incident and an attempted attack on South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean suicide squad earlier in the week. His Communist counterpart, Major General Pak Chung Kuk-known to American officers as "Frog Face"-claimed that the U.S. ship had been caught spying in North Korean waters and that the suicide squad was actually made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence...
Radio Pyongyang later broadcast what it described as an interview with Bucher conducted by North Korean reporters. In it, Bucher-or a stand-in-was asked whether his ship had intruded into Korean waters and whether his crew should be considered aggressors. A dull voice replied: "Yes, I admit. I have no excuse whatsoever. Our espionage acts are plain acts of aggression and criminal acts that violated the rudimental norms of international...
Exterminatory Blow. Just how serious the Administration considers the situation is obvious from Lyndon Johnson's worried, wary handling of it. The North Korean regime at week's end pronounced itself "fully combat ready" and determined to deliver "an exterminatory blow" at the U.S. if attacked. And it has amply proved its volatility and hornet sting. North of the 38th parallel it has an army of 367,000, an air force of 35,000 equipped with 650 planes, and a navy of 10,500. Arrayed against this force is a South Korean army of 600,000 men, plus...
Thus Erv Johnson, 38, learned that he was back in the Navy as a result of the Korean confrontation. President Johnson's activation of 14,787 civilians in 28 Air Reserve units of the National Guard, Air Force and Navy turned "weekend warriors" into full-time military men practically overnight. Many Reservists were given less than twelve hours to report to their units; few had more than 24-hour notice. Most were caught by surprise...