Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With troops of the 1st Cavalry Division when they entered Pyongyang was TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin. This is his report on conditions in the first Communist capital to be liberated by the forces of the free world...
...people of Pyongyang cheered, waving South Korean flags, British flags, Chinese Nationalist flags and improvised U.N. flags which had been designed from hearsay. At Seoul, which had been devastated by both the retreating Communists and the U.N. assault, the people had shown a restrained enthusiasm for their liberators. The people of Pyongyang were staging the most spontaneous demonstration seen in any Asiatic city since the World War II liberation of Shanghai from the Japanese...
Four Anterooms. Pyongyang may have a Korean name, but it was a Russian-run city. In every house, shop and office hang pictures of Stalin and Lenin. The biggest hotel in Pyongyang is known simply as "the Russian hotel." For two full blocks around the Russian embassy in Pyongyang every house is a Russian house. On the city's main thoroughfare the Russians maintained their own commissary, a steel-shuttered building crammed with excellent wines, vodkas, caviar and cosmetics. In the embassy itself we found expensive radios and photographic equipment, heavy silver ashtrays and a completely cooked meal which...
...Life in Pyongyang had been pleasant for the Korean Communist bosses, too. The offices of Communist Premier Kim II Sung make Syngman Rhee's modest quarters in Seoul look like a Trappist's cell. To enter Kim's personal office you have to walk through four successive anterooms past four portraits of Stalin. Kim's office is a real-life equivalent of the one used by Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator. Rich with gaudy rugs and expensive furniture, it is dominated by an enormous mahogany desk which is flanked on the left by a foot...
Five Years. Two days after the first R.O.K. and U.S. troops entered the city, Pyongyang began to settle down again to the business of daily living. In the thoroughly looted City Hall, Colonel Archibald W. Melchior, a civil-affairs officer, struggled to organize a provisional city council out of a hastily assembled group of what he hoped were Pyongyang's leading citizens. Melchior explained how he had chosen his council: "We were sitting on some logs by a foot bridge when we saw a Korean walking toward us. Since he was well-dressed we collared him and told...