Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With more glee than accuracy, Pyongyang promptly announced that the MIGs had "shot down the spy plane, dealing a powerful blow in self-defense...
...North Korea-a place no Soviet Premier had ever visited before. Despite the short notice, North Korea's Boss Kim II Sung rolled out the Red carpet for his unexpected guest: frenzied crowds waving Soviet flags roared "Mansei! [May you live 10,000 years]" as Kosygin arrived at Pyongyang airport. Kim, a Peking-lining Stalinist who only a month ago rudely rejected an invitation to Moscow, embraced Aleksei warmly. "We consider amity and unity between our two nations most valuable," he said. Of course: since Russia brusquely decided to cut back Kim II Sung's supply...
...FROM Pyongyang to the Yangtze, Asia's Communists last week celebrated the tenth anniversary of Dienbienphu, the savage battle that cost France her century-old Indo-Chinese empire. In Hanoi, loudspeakers blared a specially composed song, Liberation of Dienbienphu, and thousands of North Vietnamese massed to commemorate the feat of arms that General Vo Nguyen Giap, the Red victor of Dienbienphu, called "one of the greatest victories in the history of the armed struggle of oppressed peoples...
...didn't shoot him." Mr. Shin's confession is thus shown to be a deliberate and calculated effort to take upon himself the doubts and failings of his congregation. "I am you, you are me, and we are one!" he cries, and the Christians of Pyongyang -having despaired of their faith in the horrors of war-take comfort both from Mr. Shin's admission of guilt and his assertion of new strength...
...gasping, panting, sweating, bleeding, without a miracle to save him." And yet, torn by inner doubt as he is, when the Chinese Communists enter the war and the U.N. forces are forced to retreat to the south, Mr. Shin elects to remain with his congregation in Pyongyang. "We will give them their Christ and their Judas," Mr. Shin explains. For he has come to believe that what man needs is not the chill wind of reason, as the young narrator insists, but the healing balm of belief...