Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the Red air force was out of sight, U.S. airmen concentrated on bombing North Korean communications. Despite bad flying weather, Superforts raided Seoul's railroad marshaling yards, interrupting traffic from the north to the southern battlefront, and blasted industrial targets near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. From a secret U.S. airbase built in four days, F80 Shooting Star jets attacked tanks and transports around Taejon; the highway northeast of Taejon was lined with burning vehicles. Other U.S. planes attacked Communist engineers who were trying to repair destroyed bridges across the Kum River...
...Halt the War." The Worker got its war news from the Moscow and Pyongyang radio, reported solemnly that U.S. correspondents were trying to "soften U.S. responsibility for atrocities...
North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, rhymes (more or less) with strung young...
Born near Pyongyang, he is said to have been trained at China's Whampoa Military Academy, and later in Moscow. His original name was Kim Sung Chu. Reason for the change: in 1945 he rode into Korea with the Red army, whose commissars billed him for a few days as "the Korean hero, Kim II Sung." There had been an authentic guerrilla hero named Kim II Sung, who disappeared after the 1919 independence movement. When Koreans pointed this out, the Russians dropped the hero legend, but Kim kept the name. Measure of his success in Stalinizing North Korea...
...real military brain behind the North Korean army. Titularly Soviet ambassador to the Korean "People's Republic," he is actually Stalin's proconsul, ruling North Korea (through Kim II Sung) from his roomy, three-story mansion, built on the site of the old Presbyterian Mission compound in Pyongyang. Burly, deadpanned, boorish, he was Soviet delegate on the Joint U.S.-U.S.S.R. [Korean] Commission in 1946. His U.S. opposite number was Major General A. V. Arnold. At one session Shtykov observed testily: "Lenin once said that any man who trusted another was a fool." Arnold looked thoughtfully across the green...