Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...informed North Korea's Ambassador to Stockholm, Kil Jae Gyong, who is also accredited to Oslo, that he was no longer welcome in Norway. Similar scenes took place in Helsinki and Copenhagen, and as of last week, twelve North Korean embassy staffers had been unceremoniously ordered home to Pyongyang...
...North Koreans have protested their innocence, and mission staffers in Finland insisted that they would not leave the country. Nonetheless, Scandinavian officials have little doubt that the smuggling was ordered by Pyongyang as a desperate measure to help resolve the government's horrendous financial crisis. Western experts estimate that North Korea, with a G.N.P. of only $4.5 billion, has a foreign debt of more than $2 billion, at least $500 million of which is owed to the capitalist world. North Korea not only maintains some 60 expensive missions abroad but also buys millions of dollars' worth of advertising...
While not giving satisfaction to the U.S., the North Koreans apparently wanted to prevent the Panmunjom incident from turning into a military confrontation, and even the South Koreans, at first hopeful that the U.S. would take a hard line toward Pyongyang, had by midweek accepted moderation as the only course. Thus about the only concrete result will be a separation of the opposing forces-assuming that the U.S. accepts Pyongyang's demarcation proposal. At week's end, Frudden was holding out for guarantees of safety for U.N.C. personnel before doing so. But both sides also agreed to hold...
...Korea. Last week, for example, the North Korean embassy in Peking twice issued warnings that "a critical situation" was developing in Korea and that war could break out "at any time." It seemed possible that the North Koreans were trying to provoke a retaliation that would rally sympathy for Pyongyang's demand-due to be made at the U.N. this fall-that the U.S. withdraw all its forces from South Korea...
...most cosmopolitan display of military hardware ever seen in Africa. Up Kinshasa's Boulevard of June 30 last week marched phalanxes of white-gloved, Belgian-trained units proudly bearing Belgian FN rifles. Next an elite division, trained by North Koreans and sporting Pyongyang-made AK-47 automatic rifles, goose-stepped up the avenue. Then came a parade of American amphibious vehicles, Japanese jeeps, French Panhard armored cars. At the end, to great cheers, 30 Chinese T-62 tanks rumbled by, scarring the broad boulevard, whose floral center strip had been paved over...