Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doubling the Force. In Chicago, retired General Mark Clark, veteran not only of World War II but at one time the U.N. commander in chief in the Korean War, cautioned against getting involved in a predominantly land war in Viet Nam. "The great lesson learned in the Korean War," said Clark, "was that we must not fight the Communists in a manpower war. The way to win is to hit hard and use all our air force and naval aviation powers." Above all, said Clark, the Reds must be made to feel the brunt of overwhelming force. Communists, he added...
Across the green-felt-topped table in the long metal hut, the American general and the North Korean general, flanked by aides, stared at each other with undisguised loathing. "Commissar Pak, if you have any legitimate business to bring before this meeting, I suggest you get on with it," began U.S. Major General William P. Yarborough, representing the United Nations Command. Major General Pak Chung Kuk waited impassively for the translation, then sat bolt upright and snarled back: "Your side must stop aggravating tension. Your slanders against our side only remind us of a mad dog baying at the moon...
...scene played out last week on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the Communist invasion of South Korea. It was the 212th act of a farcical drama that faces little danger of closing: the periodic meetings of the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom on the 1953 Korean truce line. The initial, stated purpose of the commission-to police the armistice between the two Koreas-has long since been overshadowed by Red propaganda and invective. But the endless sessions serve as a grim reminder that Korea, where 54,000 Americans died and 50,000 are on active service, is still...
...members of its onetime Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, no nation hates Japan more bitterly than Korea-and the antipathy is mutual. Koreans, still smarting from 35 years of harsh colonial rule by imperial Japan, regard their former masters as a cruel, crafty race bent on reasserting economic domination of their country. To most Japanese, on the other hand, Koreans are senjin-subhumans-personified by the garlic-reeking Korean thugs who rule Tokyo's underworld. Such acid antagonisms are not easily neutralized in an Asia rent by revolution and rising nationalism. Last week, nonetheless, Japan and South Korea...
...exchange of envoys between the two countries since 1876, rode four subsidiary agreements aimed at reducing ancient economic and ethnic frictions. One protocol provides South Korea with $800 million in Japanese loans, goods and private commercial credits. Another extends full educational, health and welfare benefits to the 570,000 Koreans living in Japan. The Sato government also agreed to return to Seoul a hoard of Korean national treasures (ranging from ceramics to calligraphy) that the Japanese had stolen during the occupation years. In the most controversial agreement of all, covering South Korea's rich offshore fishing grounds, Japan...