Word: pyongyang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Agreement on this small but important point made for an amiable start to the first discussions between the two countries in more than 2 1/2 years. The two sides, however, deadlocked over arrangements for a full-scale meeting between parliamentarians. Pyongyang wants to include some 650 members of its Supreme People's Assembly and the 299 members of the South's National Assembly. The Southerners, contending that little could be accomplished at such a huge affair, would prefer to limit attendance to 20 representatives from each side...
...Pyongyang last week denounced the offer as "nothing new" and repeated its own demand for a North-South conference on reunification. Seoul, which has condemned such a gathering as "unrealistic" and "impractical," said it will nonetheless continue to seek increased trade and diplomatic ties with the North and help Pyongyang join international organizations. In a further display of goodwill, South Korea halted daily propaganda broadcasts to the North at least until after the Olympics...
...identity!" some 13,000 student protesters massed at Yonsei University in downtown Seoul last week. Their goal: to accompany an unofficial 13-member delegation to the "truce village" of Panmunjom, 30 miles away, in the Demilitarized Zone. There a matching delegation of 13 from Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, the Communist North Korean capital, waited to hold "reunification talks...
...kept it for a while, long enough to forge a copy. While police linked the friend to North Korean sympathizers living in Japan, his fingerprints do not match those of the fake Shinichi. As the mystery deepens, Seoul is already threatening to withdraw an offer to allow Pyongyang to stage some Olympic events...
...creditor banks are already scouting for North Korean assets to seize, including reserves believed to be stashed in bank accounts in Switzerland, Austria, West Germany and elsewhere. There is speculation too that the creditors could try to intercept the shipments of gold, worth about $27 million each, that Pyongyang sells each month through the London bullion market. Juche, in other words, could encompass even harder times ahead...