Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seoul, however, opposes any direct U.S. talks with Pyongyang unless South Koreans are present, and Pyongyang refuses to sit down with the South Koreans. Only last month, moreover, Chinese Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua denounced as "of no avail" Kissinger's own plan for peace: a conference that would include the U.S., China, the two Koreas, and possibly Japan and the Soviet Union. In an interview with TIME last week (see page 35), Kissinger said, however, that he did not think this was absolutely the last word on the subject...
...Fusako Shigenobu, 29, the daughter of an insurance salesman, who is suspected of being the Red Army's leader. The Red Army, numbering about 30 and dedicated to violent revolution, made its public debut in March 1970, when nine members hijacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Pyongyang, North Korea. Two years later, just before the Lod Airport massacre, authorities uncovered the bodies of 14 young men and women on remote Mount Haruna, 70 miles northwest of Tokyo. The 14, who had been tortured and left to die of exposure in freezing winter temperatures, had apparently been purged...
Industrial Takeoff. The greatest obstacle to Kim is the strength of South Korea itself. In the quarter century since the last war, Seoul has, except for airpower, reversed the military situation that existed in 1950 when Pyongyang had superior forces. The South has also surpassed the North in virtually every other aspect of life, especially the economy. South Korea has sustained one of the highest annual growth rates in the world-10%-since 1964. That is a long way from the days just after the Korean War, when the primitive rice-growing economy was shattered and the population...
...South Korea. Strung out across 159 installations, exposed to sub-zero cold and vulnerable to blitz attack from crack North Korean units, they are probably the toughest, best-trained and most combat-ready American forces anywhere. They are also among the most important politically. On the one hand, Pyongyang views them as the major obstacle to its unifying the Korean peninsula under Communist rule; on the other, Seoul sees the American presence (although reduced considerably from its 1953 peak of 325,000 men) as both a deterrent to attack and an earnest demonstration of Washington's commitment to defend...
...Yugoslavia's Tito (32 years). Pictures of the grinning, moonfaced leader are everywhere. Children reverently call him "our father," party officials refer to him as "the sun of our nation" and brides and grooms vow loyalty to him at wedding ceremonies. In Pyongyang, the 95 rooms and 2½ miles of exhibits at the Museum of the Korean Revolution glorify every aspect of Kim's life. All North Koreans are required to devote two hours daily and four on Saturday to the study of Kim's philosophy-an amalgam of Marxist classics and chuch...