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FOREIGN RELATIONS Soothing Seoul American forces in South Korea have been strengthened massively in the month since North Korea seized the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo. More than 200 jets have been flown into South Korean bases to back...
South Koreans are disturbed because they have been left out of secret U.S.-North Korean talks at Panmunjom on the fate of the Pueblo's 82 surviving crewmen. Moreover, they are worried that the Viet Nam war, in which they have nearly 50,000 troops, has so taxed U.S. capabilities that Washington would be unwilling to come to Seoul's aid in case of a Communist attack...
...held with North Korea, but there still was no indication that Pyongyang was prepared to give the seamen their freedom at any time soon. In fact, the North was as bellicose as usual. It spent much of the week publicizing purported "confessions" by the entire crew admitting that Pueblo had "intruded deep" into North Korea's waters-a ploy apparently aimed at inducing the U.S. to issue an apology in exchange for the crewmen's return. And at week's end Pyongyang loudly claimed that U.S. "armed boats" had invaded North Korea's western coastal waters...
...Mood Back Home While congressional Republicans journeyed home last week to deliver Lincoln's Birthday speches and mend fences, a clutch of Democrats also took advantage of the traditional recess to gauge their constituents' mood in the wake of the Pueblo incident and the ene my's new aggressiveness in Viet...
...latest Asian crisis is monotonously familiar. There was first Korea's overreaction and talk of retaliation--unsupported by military power and strongly reminiscent of the belligerence of South Vietnam's rulers. Then came Korea's childish disregard for legitimate American interests--in this case, securing the release of the Pueblo's crew...