Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...South Viet Nam, Thailand and Taiwan. South Korea ran up a payments surplus of some $100 million last year, partly by exporting such military items as jungle boots, uniforms and galvanized steel for troops fighting in Viet Nam. One result is spreading prosperity-including even traffic jams -in Korean cities. Men are turning to woolen suits and many women are discarding their traditional chima and chogori (silk blouse and long skirt) for once scarce Western dresses. The silk goes into exports...
This does not necessarily mean that negotiations will come soon, or that the shooting will stop as soon as talks start. In the Korean War, the fighting continued while truce talks dragged on for two years at Panmunjom, and the U.S. suffered 62,200 casualties during the negotiations. In Viet Nam, there are four primary belligerents, and nobody can agree on who will talk about what to whom. The Viet Cong rebels say that they will talk only directly to the U.S.; the South Vietnamese leaders say that they will talk only to Ho Chi Minh; and Ho-unlike...
Agents of South Korea's CIA fanned out through the world last summer to round up some 30 South Korean intellectuals-professors, painters, poets and composers-who were living and working abroad. The charges against them: spying for North Korea in a network controlled from East Germany...
...South Korean CIA persuaded the suspects to return home by threats against their relatives or offers of lighter sentences, but the news that they had been taken back to Korea touched off a furor in Western Europe, where most of them lived. France and West Germany, neither of which has extradition treaties with South Korea, lodged official protests with Seoul...
...defendants went on trial in Seoul: eleven who had been living in West Germany, three from France, and one each from the J.S. and Austria, among other places. Nine were women. The government prosecutors charged that the defendants had made a total of 19 visits to the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and 142 trips to East Berlin to undergo espionage training and receive instructions from North Korean secret agents. They were also accused of receiving more than $77,000 in operational funds from the Communists from 1958 to 1967. In evidence, the government showed off transmitters and decoding books...