Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Between 1950 and 1953, a conflict raged across the Utah-sized peninsula that left as many as 4 million dead or wounded, including 157,530 American soldiers, and came perilously close to bringing the U.S. and China into full-scale war. It was 25 years ago this week that a massive North Korean invasion force, supplied and encouraged by the Soviet Union, swept across the DMZ and threatened to run the South's defenders right off the peninsula. On both sides of the 38th parallel, which divides the country, Koreans preparing to note the anniversary of the conflict...
...their way to reassure Seoul that the U.S. will stand by its 1953 Mutual Defense Treaty with South Korea. Last week, addressing the Japan Society in New York, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger pointedly asserted that the U.S. was "resolved to maintain the peace and security of the Korean peninsula." Added Kissinger: "This is of crucial importance to Japan and to all of Asia...
...will come to its aid "in accordance with its [U.S.] constitutional processes." Nonetheless, in the wake of the Communist victories in Indochina, Seoul is nervous about American reliability. "We hope the U.S. will demonstrate by deeds its firm determination not to commit the same failures in the Korean peninsula as it did in the Indochina peninsula," said a recent National Assembly resolution. A Harris poll late last year, however, reported that if a new Korean war broke out, 65% of Americans would oppose U.S. intervention...
...Communist victories have created not just ripples but potential shock waves. Laos is already feeling the impact (see story page 28); Korea could be next, in the opinion of many South Koreans. "It is obvious that the Communists will attempt to create another Indochina situation in the Korean peninsula," noted a resolution adopted last week by the [South] Korean Newspaper Association. North Korean Dictator Kim II Sung has done nothing to alleviate the South's fears; in Peking last month he warned that "we are prepared for war. We will not hesitate to launch even war for the revolution...
...what he learns now. If there is no movement in March, he may give up the effort. The great uncertainty was how much maneuvering room Kissinger had. The Israelis have expressed a willingness to pull back their armed forces from the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes in the Sinai Peninsula and return the Abu Rudeis oilfields to Egypt. In exchange they want a declaration of nonbelligerency from Egypt-something that Sadat cannot give until there is an overall settlement, including the Golan Heights, the West Bank and recognition of the Palestinians...