Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so puny a state as North Korea showed that it could humiliate...
WHAT began as a bizarre incident on the high seas last January came to an end last week after an equally bizarre series of diplomatic maneuvers. Held captive in North Korea for eleven months, the crew members of the surveillance ship U.S.S. Pueblo were released and flown home to the U.S. The episode will not end there. The crewmen, some of whom said they had been beaten and tortured by their captors, now face a formal court of inquiry that will raise some serious questions. Did the Pueblo at any time stray into North Korean waters? Should the ship have...
...chilly, hazy morning last week when the men walked one by one through light snow that dusted the 250-ft. Bridge of No Return from North to South Korea. In quilted blue coats, grey shirts, flannel trousers and white-soled black sneakers, the 82 surviving crew members filed over the bridge at ten-foot intervals. The body of the 83rd, Fireman Duane Hodges, mortally wounded during the hijacking by North Korean patrol boats, was brought to mid-bridge in a North Korean ambulance and his coffin transferred to a waiting U.S. truck...
...Chung Kuk. "The position of the U.S.," said General Woodward, the top U.N. member of the armistice commission, "has been that the ship was not engaged in illegal activities, that there is no convincing evidence that the ship at any time intruded into territorial waters claimed by North Korea, and that we could not apologize for actions we did not believe took place." He added: "My signature will not and cannot alter the facts. I will sign the document to free the crew and only to free the crew...
...Chung Hee-Park, the courageous President of South Korea. Our friend and ally, he has guided his countrymen toward a new hope for prosperity and tranquillity-in a land where suffering and anguish have so long endured...