Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reports from two of the least accessible of Communist capitals. Anthony Lewis was describing from Hanoi a U.S. bombing alert and the look of war that lay about him, while Associate Editor Harrison Salisbury noted from North Korea that he was the first U.S. correspondent to file under a Pyongyang dateline in more than 20 years...
...persistent in knocking on the Bamboo Curtain; Lewis had been trying to get into Hanoi for two years, and from his London base renewed his pleas to North Vietnamese officials in Paris almost monthly. Another factor is the Times's undeniable prestige and influence in the U.S. Both Pyongyang and Hanoi obviously felt that they could benefit from some press exposure in the U.S. at this time, and that the Timesmen were likely to give them a favorable shake...
...policy, and Lewis' columns have been particularly tough. Salisbury, who has long experience covering both European and Asian Communist countries, in 1966 became the first journalist from a major U.S. publication to visit North Viet Nam in a dozen years. His series of stories was distinctly sympathetic. From Pyongyang's viewpoint, Salisbury's visit promises not only sympathy but also reciprocity that may give North Korean newsmen access to Washington...
...repeatedly vowed that he will reunite Korea and force American "imperialists" to withdraw from the peninsula. But Kim's ground forces would find the going heavy. Seoul has about 650,000 well-trained men in its land, sea and air forces, an estimated 200,000 more than Pyongyang...
...been conducting delicate preliminary negotiations with North Korea through Red Cross intermediaries in the border village of Panmunjom. At stake is the return to their homelands of an estimated 10 million people displaced by the Korean War. Park was convinced that internal troubles in the South could give Pyongyang an excuse to launch a propaganda campaign against his government. The flinty President might have been worried about something else too. Eleven years ago, massive student protests against corruption were instrumental in bringing down the government of his predecessor, the late Syngman Rhee...