Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reasons for Pyongyang's shift are largely economic. To close the gap between North Korea's backward agriculture and burgeoning industry, Kim seven years ago launched a "Great Leap Forward" of his own. As a symbol, he picked Chollima - a legendary flying horse that could cover 1,000 ri (300 miles) in a single bound. A bronze Chollima was mounted atop a tower in downtown Pyongyang, and 11 million North Koreans stolidly set out to increase production of everything from pig iron to fertilizer. By late 1963, Chollima had begun to stumble: inadequate transportation caused foul...
Friendship & Pride. Kim saw his chance with the downfall of Nikita Khrushchev. Peking's resources were too thinly spread for Kim to count on Chinese help, but Russia's new leaders wanted to revive friendships in Asia that Khrushchev had ended. Pyongyang publications soon began soft-pedaling attacks on Moscow's "revisionism," and when Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin visited Kim last February, the stage was set for rapprochement. Soviet aid-cut off in 1963 at the height of North Korea's polemics-was resumed. Under a military assistance pact signed last May, Russia will probably supply...
...emphasis on jooche (national identity) should pay off nicely. Even before he patched things up with Moscow, the North Korean boss had made strides in rebuilding his nation. Pyongyang-completely leveled during the Korean War-has been reconstructed along Moscow mausoleum lines:broad, empty boulevards; vast worker apartment buildings that house stores and restaurants on their ground floors."It's the dullest city in the world, " says a recent Japanese visitor, "but one senses an atmosphere of fierce pride...
Peoples U. The Chinese apparently decided to give White favored treatment in hopes of making him a Communist mouthpiece for the "oppressed Negro." After he was captured near Pyongyang, in North Korea, a Chinese commissar informed him: "You have been liberated. You have come over to the side of the people." Nonetheless, White spent the next three years in Chinese prison camps. Other prisoners of war who returned home testified that White became an informer on his fellow-G.I.s, was rewarded by being given special privileges and a soft job as prison camp mailman. When the armistice was signed...
Perhaps it was because he had noth ing new to say. He spoke grandly of attacking the "imperialists" with a "Djakarta-Pnompenh-Hanoi, Peking-Pyongyang axis," which sounds like an airline route but is nothing more than a dream that he has often toyed with in the past. The speech confirmed continuance of Sukarno's far leftward drift. With Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi sitting near by as an honored guest, Sukarno predictably ripped into the U.S., pledged "active support" to the Viet Cong guerrillas in South Viet Nam and threatened to nationalize...