Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned to the acting mayor, a teacher named Cheung Deuk Rim, and asked him who had run things in Pyongyang the last five years. "The Russians," he said simply...
...Although they did not have to do so, all Soviet diplomats fled Pyongyang. They would have been protected by international law since Russia is not technically at war with any of the U.N. nations...
...best MacArthur manner, R.O.K. Chief of Staff General Chung Il Kwun declared Pyongyang "secure" only 24 hours after U.N. troops had made their first entry into the city. Long after Chung had made his announcement, U.N. soldiers were still battling snipers inside Pyongyang...
...troops who shot their way into Pyongyang last week were hot on the track of a Communist train loaded with 250 to 300 American prisoners. A few bearded and emaciated G.I.s, who had been hiding in Pyongyang, told Brigadier General Frank A. Allen, deputy commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, that other G.I. prisoners had been loaded on a northbound train. Allen got into his jeep and set out in pursuit. Inside a railway tunnel ten miles north of Sunchon, a South Korean soldier pointed out the bodies of seven American soldiers who had starved to death. Then...
...began to stumble we always carried him along as far as we could but that usually wasn't far enough. I was put in with a group of 47 sick men and allowed to ride in an oxcart. Twenty of these 47 guys died before we got to Pyongyang...