Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some hopes for creating a future independent government in Cambodia center on the irrepressible Prince Sihanouk, who wanders in exile between Peking and the North Korean capital of Pyongyang. Sihanouk had been put under house arrest by the Pol Pot regime when the former Chief of State had boldly returned to Cambodia at the height of the Khmer Rouge terror. He re-emerged just as Phnom-Penh fell to the Vietnamese invaders last January. He appeared at the U.N. to make an impassioned speech in favor of Cambodian independence in which he compared Viet Nam to a "starving boa constrictor...
...reappraisal" indicating that the North Koreans have now acquired military superiority over the South. The study concluded that between 1971 and 1977 North Korea not only upped its ground forces from 450,000 to 550,000 but, more important, increased its arsenal of weaponry. U.S. officials now estimate that Pyongyang enjoys a better than 2-to-1 artillery advantage over Seoul...
With that military threat in mind, Carter and Park issued a joint communiqué that, for the first time, invited North Korea to a tripartite meeting. The invitation is designed to cancel out the propaganda advantage that Pyongyang had gained with its recent-and obviously hollow-overtures to Seoul on talks aimed at reunifying the long-divided land. The long-term objective of the proposal appears to be to stabilize the volatile military situation...
...belligerent, doctrinaire state that for sheer xenophobia is rivaled only by Albania inside the Communist world. In pursuit of his goal of reuniting the Korean peninsula under his rule, Kim has gingerly begun to open up his country to the West. Two weeks ago, North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, was the site of the world table tennis championships and reunification talks between Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. Among the few American reporters who have been allowed to travel inside North Korea is TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold. His report...
...Pyongyang is a mecca for every true son and daughter of the new socialist Korea, and red, appropriately, seems to be the city's favorite color. There is red in the paint freshly applied to the showcase capital, as well as in the cherry and plum trees that fill the parks and line the streets. "Oh, our Pyongyang," sings the chorus in one revolutionary opera. "Beautiful is the red socialist capital. With boundless joy we have come to the Pyongyang we have always longed for. Our leader is here in the revolutionary capital, which is the fountainhead...