Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, was secured last week, LIFE Photographer Hank Walker headed for the Russian embassy. There, to his surprise, he found two complete periodical files -of Pravda and TIME...
...latter got into the Russian embassy at Pyongyang might make a good cloak & dagger story. As for the copies of our U.S. edition, they might have been mailed direct from the U.S. or been part of the bulk subscription order we deliver each week to the Russian embassy in Washington. (In the Soviet Union, 13 copies of our Atlantic edition go to newspapers, libraries, government bureaus and officials...
Mistretta escaped several times, was recaptured and beaten. The prisoners were then put on a train headed north from Pyongyang. The train traveled only at night and there were many delays while the Reds repaired the tracks. Said Mistretta: "They let us scrounge in the fields for dry corn and old beans. We made some soup out of snails.Some of the men caught cats and ate them. I chased a cat for 15 minutes but couldn't catch...
...across a field. In the field I picked up four radishes. I jumped into another gully and stayed there, eating the radishes. I heard the gooks shoot the other groups of prisoners." U.S. investigators tried to track down reports of another trainload of prisoners taken north from Pyongyang. But at week's end they were convinced that the bulk of the Americans held in the North Korean capital had been shot...
...Honolulu, on the way back, the New York Times's Tony Leviero sent a story forecasting a "knockout blow" in Korea (last week's paratroop landing above Pyongyang). Leviero's dispatch was garbled in transmission, so the Times wired back to check some of the facts. Leviero never got the original query, and was burned up when Smith got a play in the afternoon Honolulu papers with a "knockout blow" story of his own plus a Page One spread next morning in the New York Herald Tribune, Leviero's opposition. Leviero cabled his boss, Washington Bureau...