Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After hitting the North Korean power sites in June, and the North Korean officer-candidate school last fortnight, General Mark Clark's headquarters in Tokyo, looking around for more assault points, decided on the ripening military targets in and around Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. These included warehouses crammed with ammunition and other war gear, telephone, rubber and ammunition factories, railroad repair shops and marshaling yards, a motor pool, a Chinese communications center, a troop replacement area. Three weeks ago allied reconnaissance planes began dropping leaflets warning the people of Pyongyang to stay away from military installations. "United Nations...
...presumably further crippling the Red fighting forces. Moreover, the Eighth Army, which Matt Ridgway had turned into a first-class fighting machine, had proved by its "meat-grinder" counteroffensives that it could grind some 90 miles farther north to the line where the peninsula widens out, swallowing up Pyongyang (the North Koreans' capital, which they had lost once before) and some 15,000 more square miles of Red territory...
...exhibit which was supposed to show germ-carrying U.S. bombs. Exclaimed one Briton: "Inconceivable that the evidence shown us was forged." Communist organs in France are whipping up a demonstration against the new NATO Commander Matthew Ridgway, who is being denounced as the "microbe killer." Capping it all, the Pyongyang radio has been broadcasting the "confessions" of two captured...
...planes had attacked, but the Peking radio bawled about "aggressive provocations" and violations of Red China's "air sovereignty" by "American air pirates." Then the Communists alleged three more acts of U.N. barbarism: a U.N. bombing of a Red P.W. camp at Kang-dong, 18 miles northeast of Pyongyang; an air strafing of a properly marked Red truce delegation convoy north of Kaesong; and an air attack on the Kaesong zone itself, where a crater 25 ft. wide and 8 ft. deep was exhibited to U.N. investigators...
Last week his name turned up on the Communist list of U.N. prisoners, and this week Wilfred Burchett, Australian-born correspondent for the Paris Communist daily Ce Soir, told allied newsmen that he had interviewed Dean only a few days earlier, in a Red prison camp at Pyongyang. They had talked for three hours over drinks of gin. Burchett relayed Dean's story...