Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreed to a "necessary minimum" of armed Communist soldiers.) Outside the conference building (newly designated by the Communists as "United Nations House") they found two North Korean officers and a woman sergeant, pert in an olive jacket and blue skirt, who turned out to be a Miss Paik of Pyongyang. The three told the U.N. convoy commander they were there to provide any services they could...
...Early Arrivals. For their own men, the Reds evidently expected a rough, slow trip over the loo-mile road from Pyongyang to Kaesong. The road was muddy, and cratered from innumerable allied air attacks, and it had been bountifully strewn with "tetrahedrons"-devilish little four-pointed gadgets of cast iron which always keep one sharp point up, no matter how they fall, to puncture tires.* Obviously eager to be the first on the scene, the Communists announced that they proposed to leave Pyongyang the day before the Kaesong meeting in a convoy of five jeeps and five trucks bearing white...
Major General Paik Sun Yup, 32, Commander, Republic of Korea I Corps, was born in Pyongyang and was graduated from the Japanese Military Academy in Manchuria (1941). Served as a lieutenant with the Japanese army in China in World War II. He is considered one of Korea's ablest field commanders, is also a fluent linguist (Japanese, Chinese, English and Korean...
...Force's Fourth (Sabre jet) Fighter Interceptor Group, Gabby, now a full colonel, got a chance to try his formula on Communist MIGs in Korea. Some 15 MIG-15 jets had pounced on a mass flight of U.S. prop-driven Mustangs just north of Pyongyang when Gabreski and his Sabres roared to the rescue. In short order Gabby knocked out one MIG-his first kill in Korea. His teammates shot down two more, damaged a third and sent the others streaking home to Manchuria...
...ancestry. Some Air Force officers thought he might be a Russian-built PO2 single-engined training biplane. To G.I.s the canvas-covered,wire-strutted plane looked like a cross between a box kite and an orange crate. They had named him Bed Check in the first place because at Pyongyang last fall, they used to stay awake nights until he came buzzing over from behind the enemy lines, dropped a bomb, a sack of bolts or nails, or maybe fired a few shots from a pistol and then headed for home...