Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capture. Further, in towing Pueblo into Wonsan, the Koreans sailed in close formation, which would have made it difficult for a strafing plane to avoid killing Americans. Once in Wonsan, the six U.S. officers were met by Defense Minister Kim Chang Bong, who flew back with them to Pyongyang, the capital...
...switched to the U.N. Security Council, which had held up its own deliberations until the President had finished his speech. The Russians, who missed the last major debate on Korea in 1950 because they were boycotting the Security Council, were on hand this time to take the role of Pyongyang's advocate. Soviet Delegate Platon D. Morozov immediately moved to strike the issue from the agenda, won support only from Hungary and Algeria and was voted down, 12 to 3. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg then called on the council to "act with the greatest urgency" lest...
Some other course may well prove mandatory. For one thing, a Soviet veto of any constructive proposal is a strong possibility. For another, Pyongyang has clearly announced that it would ignore any suggestion from the U.N., under whose shield, after all, South Korea has remained a free nation...
...Communists is overwhelming, and I am in no mood to listen to an obfuscating smoke screen." Pak, in turn, scored Lyndon Johnson as a "war maniac" and added: "They are burning Johnson's effigies today, but tomorrow they will burn Johnson alive." His rhetoric was a match for Pyongyang radio, which described how North Korean attacks had "left the U.S. imperialists shivering...
...long way toward achieving one of his goals. He also had possession of a U.S. spook ship packed with supersecret gear and if he did not have Lyndon Johnson for burning, he did have the hapless Commander Bucher. Nobody can be certain what happened to Bucher, but the Pyongyang regime was plainly making every effort to exploit him. It was a sad conclusion to Lloyd Bucher's first command...