Word: pyongyang
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...birth. Kim Jong II is thought to have been born in February 1941, somewhere in the Soviet Union, to Kim II Sung's first wife. According to the best surmise, he attended East Germany's air academy. He may have graduated with an economics degree from Pyongyang's Kim II Sung University about 1965. In the early 1970s, Japanese visitors were told that he was involved in the "three-revolution" movement in North Korea, an attempt to rebuild the country ideologically, technologically and culturally. After 1977, he disappeared from even the private conversations of Pyongyang officials. Speculation...
...happens, Kim Jong II is very much alive and well in Pyongyang. The Sixth Congress of the North Korean Workers' Party last week anointed him as heir apparent of his dictatorial father. From the outset of the congress, when the 29 members of the Communist Party Presidium took their seats on the stage of Pyongyang's Cultural Palace, the purpose of the conclave was clear. When Kim Jong II was introduced to the 3,230 party delegates, there was a perceptible stir in the hall: the young Kim was accorded no less than fifth place in party precedence...
...Washington, the Carter Administration nervously urged the South Korean military leaders to exercise "maximum restraint," lest their actions lead to "dangerous miscalculation by external forces"-meaning, of course, the rulers of Communist North Korea. Washington had no reason to think that the Pyongyang government was in fact trying to take advantage of Seoul's troubles, but clearly the crisis carried with it the seeds of danger for both South Korea and its allies...
Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 57, has a palace in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, a residence in Peking and now honorary citizenship in the Maryland town of New Carrollton (pop. 14,000). It was conferred during Sihanouk's visit to greet Cambodian refugees living there and pray with them in a service presided over by saffron-robed monks who later feted their former ruler with cakes and tea. The Prince, who is in the U.S. to generate support for a neutral Cambodia, is also visiting refugee groups to see how they fare in a faraway...