Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Nothing Printable. North Korea has certainly done its best to keep its brethren in the South shivering. Late in 1966, Premier Kim II Sung launched a program of guerrilla subversion designed to disrupt the South and humiliate the U.S. at every turn...
...Pueblo's crew. "The criminals who encroach upon others' sovereignty and commit provocative acts must receive deserving punishment," said the party newspaper Nodong Sinmun. "These criminals must be punished by law." Warned State Department Spokesman Robert McCloskey: "The U.S. Government would consider any such moves by North Korea to be a deliberate aggravation of an already serious situation...
...Navy. That ferret fleet is intended as a counterforce to Russia's 60-vessel ELINT armada, made up mostly of converted trawlers and hydrographic craft, all bristling with antennas and sensitive snooping gear. Just as the Pueblo and her kin prowl the international waters off China, North Korea and the Soviet Union, Russian trawlers are stationed off California, South Carolina, Florida's Cape Kennedy, Guam and Alaska. A Soviet spy ship dogs every move of U.S. aircraft carriers on "Yankee Station," the 45,000-sq.-mi. area of the Tonkin Gulf from which American air strikes over North...
...U.S.S. Pueblo was only the latest and loudest thunderbolt from a long-gathering storm of North Korean belligerence. Under Premier Kim II Sung, a tough, Soviet-trained soldier, the North has become increasingly frustrated by its place in the Communist world and its poor showing visa-vis South Korea. Moved by the desire to bolster his regime internally and win some international notice and prestige -plus his oft-stated desire to distract the U.S. from its role in Viet Nam-Kim has deliberately launched his country on a high-risk policy...