Word: pyongyang
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After all the fuss over possible POWs in Russia and Vietnam, a U.S. Senator just back from Pyongyang says hundreds of American servicemen captured during the Korean War were sent to China and never returned. Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, said, "Every single Korean official we talked to confirmed" that U.S. prisoners of war had been sent to China. "They weren't returned," he said. Beijing has repeatedly denied that China kept any American POWs except for 21 who asked to stay...
...decades, North Korea has relied on its two giant neighbors, the U.S.S.R. and China, for political, economic and military assistance. Now Russia has recognized South Korea, stopped supplying arms to the North and demanded hard currency for its oil shipments. Two weeks ago, to the muted fury of Pyongyang, China too agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Seoul...
...Pyongyang government has yanked home thousands of young people who were studying in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Afraid of what they might have learned abroad, authorities have sent many for political re- education into the countryside, where rationing has, according to intelligence reports, gone from three to two meals a day. But those students are surely doing some educating of their own, whispering messages of discontent and subversion to the local peasants...
...accommodation with the South. Members of the North Korean ruling elite have seen what happened in Germany, another country divided in 1945. The more realistic among them can easily imagine ending up like Erich Honecker and his comrades: on the dustheap of history or in the dock. Visitors to Pyongyang have noted a new defensiveness, bordering on desperation, among officials there...
SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY wrong with the 3,000-room Yu Kyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea. At 105 stories, the hotel is the largest building in Asia, boasting a $4.7 billion athletic complex. But the structure may never open. It is sagging so badly now that the elevators are said to be unusable...