Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people of this country so easily forget what happened in Korea? There is a definite lesson to be learned there before we enter peace talks with the North Vietnamese. Many urge that we begin negotiations immediately, wherever they be held. In Korea, the conference site was thought to be of little significance; yet to the Koreans it meant a great deal. They knew that if they could obtain small concessions from us before talks began, they would be able to achieve more and larger concessions from us once they were under way. If our Government desires that Viet...
...week to meet with President Johnson. In private conversations attended only by the two Presidents and their interpreters, Johnson briefed Park on U.S. plans for peace talks on Viet Nam, apparently convinced him that the U.S. intends neither to make reckless concessions to the Communists nor to leave South Korea. Their joint communique noted President Park's "satisfaction with these developments...
...Over the past few months, North Korea has speeded up the recruitment and training of its 1,200,000-man "People's Militia," massed most of its 340,000-man army in the southern part of the country, and organized a special 20,000-man commando force for sabotage and guerrilla warfare missions over the border. It has launched 321 raids in the past year, a 600% increase over the year before. One such mission was designed to assassinate Park, but it failed (TIME, Feb. 2); not long after, the U.S.S. Pueblo was hijacked. The South does not expect...
...South Korea will receive its first U.S. destroyer this month, the second by the end of the year. At a special meeting in Washington next month between the U.S. and South Korean defense ministers. South Korea hopes to persuade the U.S. to provide two more destroyers, plus a fleet of speedy (30 to 40 knots) patrol boats that can keep up with the fast Soviet engines that power the North Korean spy boats along the coast. Park is also pressing the U.S. to provide faster planes. Right now, his air force has 300 fighters, mostly F-86 Sabre jets, compared...
United in Hatred. South Korea's second line of defense-and the real thorn in North Korea's side-is the continued strength of its economy. Despite the disruptions of war, the South Korean economy continues to grow at a rate of 12% a year. Foreign investors are flocking into Seoul and the countryside, including Motorola (electronic circuits), IBM (computers), and Fairchild Camera (transistors). Though U.S. aid still braces the Korean budget, the aid figure has dropped from $110 million in 1966 to $70 million last year. Within the next two or three years, South Korea expects...