Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postwar duty in the Pentagon to command the Fifth Air Force under Weyland in Korea. There Partridge won the Silver Star for conspicuous gallantry in action in an unusual spot for an air commander. In a light observation hedgehopper, he conducted personal reconnaissance over U.N. forces advancing against Pyongyang and Chinnampo, completed his mission even though his plane was hit repeatedly by enemy ground machine-gun fire...
Significantly, no North Korean planes intercepted Hobbs's hijacked DC-3 either. The plane obviously was expected, and after it landed at Sunan airport, 20 miles north of Pyongyang, North Korean officials made only token efforts to imply defection. With Hobbs were his copilot, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Howard McClellan (logging flying hours with Air Force permission), a West German businessman and his wife, and 30 Koreans, including the chief information officer of the Korean air force, an energetic, Communist-investigating member of the Korean National Assembly, and, police at Pusan theorized, some half-dozen North Korean agents...
This week Party Boy Khrushchev, laughing, bantering and boozing, faces the greatest week-long party of all. From Hanoi, Ulan Bator, Pyongyang, Peking, Sofia, Budapest and Warsaw, the great lackeys of the Communist world have converged on Moscow to attend the 40th anniversary ceremonies and pay homage to the backslapping boss of Mother Russia. It is homage fully, if ruthlessly, earned. Never in history has a human being exercised such power as Nikita Khrushchev. None has flourished it with such bibulous, somehow engaging effrontery...
...sold Stalin the idea that South Korea was another ripe plum waiting to fall into the Soviet basket was three-star General Terenty F. Shtykov, boss of the Soviet armed forces in North Korea and later Soviet ambassador to Pyongyang. When the Communist invasion unexpectedly ran into allied armed opposition, Stalin pulled the rank and ribbons off Shtykov and sent him into that twilight of disfavor which has so often preceded the long night for Communist bigwigs. But last week Shtykov surprised the world by springing back into the news: at Vladivostok (only 400 miles from his old stamping ground...
...complaint: truce inspection is a farce, for only the U.N. observes it. Not a Sabre jet leaves Korea, not a howitzer is junked or a Patton tank replaced on the U.N. side, without its being reported to the NNSC and thence, via the Czechs and the Poles, to Pyongyang, Peking and Moscow. U.S. soldier replacements disembarking in Korea are greeted by Communist officers, who click them in with hand counters as they march off their Army transports. Yet on the North Korean side of the truce line, an immense and illegal buildup has gone on unchecked...