Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, last spring, Deane's group was brought to Pyongyang, where they were waited on hand and foot by Communist generals. The food was good and plentiful, they got new clothes, they even had a barber assigned to them. It was April when the good news came and seven of them were given their freedom, demanded by Britain and approved by the Soviet Union. At the Korea-Chinese frontier, Deane managed to smuggle out the notes for the book he finished two months later. In Mukden, they boarded "a beautiful blue train" decorated with Picasso doves -the "Peace Express...
...Korea, Marine Captain Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugging outfielder, finished his first combat mission as a jet pilot. In a 200-plane strike at a Red supply center near Pyongyang, Williams' Panther jet was struck by ground fire, and started to blaze. With a dead radio, wing flaps and wheels stuck and the airspeed indicator out, he nursed his jet back to the nearest forward air base, where he walked away from a crash landing. Said he: "There was nothing to do but belly...
Second, a U.N. line might be established across the Korean peninsula's narrow waist (some 90 miles wide). Behind such a line would lie the present Red capital, Pyongyang, and some two-thirds of Korea, with four-fifths of its population...
Triangle Hill is just north of Kumhwa, on the east face of the "Iron Triangle" (Kumhwa-Chorwon-Pyongyang). Two miles east of Triangle is Sniper Ridge. Beyond them to the north towers a much higher peak called Papa-san; the three together form a strong Communist bastion on the rugged central front. Last week the 31st Regiment of the U.S. 7th Division attacked Triangle, while South Koreans of the 2nd ROK Division stormed Sniper...
While North Korean General Nam 11, senior Red delegate, tentatively rejected the plans, he left room to back down if the Red high command should decide to do so. Consultation in Pyongyang, Peiping, and possibly Moscow, was expected...