Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will meet in a special session in Kuala Lumpur next week. Among other matters on their agenda is whether and how the organization should expand to include Burma, Cambodia, Laos and the two Viet Nams. South Korean diplomats hint that they will not only accelerate their plodding discussions with Pyongyang on reunification but also put out diplomatic feelers to Moscow and Peking...
...serious snag into prospects for reunification. The two governments have been holding preliminary negotiations since May, but Park did not change the present constitutional article defining South Korea's territory as the whole Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands-thus encompassing North Korea as well. Last week Pyongyang announced that North Korea's constitution was also being revised "to legally solidify socialist achievements...
...state of emergency declared last December. These powers, invoked on the grounds of an "imminent attack" from North Korea, were used to stifle the political opposition. His new action, moreover, appears to have increased tensions and imperiled the talks with North Korea-the opposite of his stated intentions. Radio Pyongyang last week charged that Park had acted "to dampen the desire and aspiration of the South Korean people for peaceful reunification...
...Sino-So-viet war. South Korean President Park, in the wake of President Nixon's trip to Peking, evidently decided that, instead of waiting for the withdrawal of the 43,000 U.S. troops still stationed on South Korean soil, it would be better to start talking with Pyongyang while the Americans are still there...
Like Nixon's Peking visit, the Seoul-Pyongyang agreement represented a further dissolution of the legacy of the cold war. As a senior State Department official put it, "The significance of this event goes far beyond Korea. It's a message to all who will listen that if the superpowers can rearrange their relationships, then so can the smaller powers. There's plenty of room for accommodation around the world...