Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NORTH KOREA was recently accused of training Mexican as well as Ceylonese terrorists (TIME, April 19). According to the Mexican government, 50 young Mexicans using North Korean passports traveled to Pyongyang by way of the Soviet Union-a clear indication to the Mexican government that the Russians were in on the deal. The North Koreans, moreover, gave members of the Mexican group $26,000 for travel expenses and the recruiting of additional guerrillas in Mexico...
...they have announced their intention to withdraw their 11,558 combat troops from Viet Nam. Bangkok has established trade with ten Communist countries. Recently it signed a trade agreement with Moscow and even made token purchases of $10,000 worth of dried squid and medicinal herbs from Hanoi and Pyongyang. Meanwhile, the Thais are "studying" the question of better relations with China...
...clandestine organization. They named it Movimiento de Acción Revolucionaria (MAR) and called the guerrilla unit the 2 de Octubre, the date of the massacre. Fabricio Gómez Souza, one of the students, made contact with the North Korean embassy in Moscow and arranged to visit Pyongyang. There he received the North Koreans' assurance that they would give the Mexican students political and military training. Back in Moscow, he was handed $10,000 by the North Korean embassy to finance the students' travels...
...returned to Mexico, where he recruited several more aspiring guerrillas. In order to avoid suspicion by Western intelligence agencies, they traveled individually to East Berlin, where they exchanged their Mexican passports for false North Korean passports. They regrouped in Moscow, where they visited for ten days before flying to Pyongyang on a Soviet Aeroflot plane. Next came six months of training in guerrilla tactics, radiotelegraphy, judo and use of weapons. Retracing their steps through Moscow and East Berlin, the youthful firebrands returned to Mexico and, during the next year, with another $16,000 supplied by North Korea, recruited 40 more...
...advance and asked the Navy if planes should be kept on "strip alert" for a possible rescue operation; the Navy was not interested. While Pueblo was at sea, North Korea sent an assassination team to Seoul with President Chung Hee Park as the target. This graphic signal of Pyongyang's mood did not make the Navy any more concerned about Pueblo. Even after Bucher reported that he had been sighted, his superiors offered neither guidance nor protection...