Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon the little gasoline-driven railway coach from the North Korea capital, Pyongyang, pulled up on the Russian side of the border. Russian-trained soldiers of the "Korean Peoples Army" bustled around, escorted two elderly Koreans to ward Marker 47. They were 74-year-old Kim Koo, former chief of the Korean government in exile, and 66-year-old Dr. Kimm Kiu Sic. Alone of South Korean political leaders, they had accepted a Communist invitation to go to Pyongyang. The subject for discussion: how to unify Korea...
This was rather less than Pyongyang had hoped for from Kimm and Kim. The Reds were doing everything they could think of to disrupt this week's elections, which would lead to a free Korean government in the south. They had proclaimed a People's Republic of All Korea. Then, last week, Russia announced that "necessary arrangements" had been made to pull its troops out of Korea entirely "in order to make American troops withdraw from Korea simultaneously." The Russian-controlled North Korea radio broadcast an election-eve message to U.S. Zone Commander Lieut. General John R. Hodge...
...turnout by dropping don't-forget-to-vote leaflets from planes. Most were expected to cast their votes for the National Association for the Rapid Realization of Korean Independence of Dr. Syngman Rhee. His party stood for a unified Korea-but not for unification a la Pyongyang...
...Pyongyang, capital of Soviet-occupied North Korea, there was an eye-filling parade last week. Leathery, sharp-eyed Kim II Sung, puppet boss of Korean Communists, reviewed the new Soviet-supplied North Korea People's Army. Citizens were summoned to attend. They shivered in subfreezing weather, shouting "Mansyeh!" (Long Life) as infantry, mounted machine guns, mortars and field guns swept past. Fighter planes with the Taikeuk (Korean national flag) droned overhead, dropping roses. All these fascinating weapons were not of Korean manufacture. Marveled the North Korea radio : "Equipment . . . Korean people have never seen before and do not even know...
Members of the Pauley mission were not optimistic about Soviet political (as distinguished from industrial) policy in Korea. Said one: "It looks as though the Russians are there to stay." In Pyongyang, the Soviet capital, street corners, schools and shops were literally plastered with banners proclaiming the virtues of the Soviet system, the Red Army, and "General" Kim II Sung, the Soviet puppet leader. At night Pyongyang streets rang with rifle shots...