Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Revisionist. Earlier this year, China slowly began repairing bridges burned during the Cultural Revolution. As often as not, Peking's maneuvers were designed to steal a march on Moscow. Two months ago, Premier Chou En-lai flew to Pyongyang to embrace North Korean Leader Kim II Sung, who had been branded a "fat revisionist" by Maoist Red Guards in more extremist years. Peking then agreed to exchange ambassadors with the original revisionist capital, Belgrade...
...five-hour stop at Fukuoka, the tower operators managed to slip Ishida a secret message. When the skyjackers were not listening, he was to tune his radio to a special frequency for instructions. A special message instructed the pilot to fly to Seoul, South Korea, rather than to Pyongyang...
...South Korean, U.S. and United Nations flags were hurriedly hauled down and giveaway signs were removed or covered up. A detachment of South Korean soldiers was quickly outfitted with the quilted uniforms and rifles of North Korea's army. As the plane landed, the tower boomed: "This is Pyongyang! We welcome you wholeheartedly...
...moment the students were taken in; they slapped one another happily and apologized to the other passengers for inconveniences. Then they had second thoughts and asked for proof. They wanted to see pictures of North Korean Premier Kim II Sung and a Pyongyang newspaper, both items that are forbidden in sternly anti-Communist South Korea. After a short delay, the skyjackers saw through the ruse. "During that moment," said one stewardess later, "they were very excited and looked very fearful...
...Japanese officials flew to Seoul, where they bargained for hours by radio with the young radicals. Finally, Japan's Transportation Vice Minister Shinjiro Yamamura offered to accompany them to Pyongyang as hostage if they would let the passengers go. Eighty hours after the plane had been skyjacked, yellow steps finally were rolled up to it and 50 passengers debarked, many of them pausing on the way out to shake hands ceremoniously with their captors. Then Yamamura boarded the plane, after which the remaining 49 passengers were released. The free passengers were quickly flown to Fukuoka, where they were greeted...