Word: pyongyang
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BEIJING: China, North Korea and South Korea maneuvered frantically Thursday to decide what to do now that Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-ranking official ever to defect from communist North Korea, has asked for asylum at the South Korean embassy in Beijing. His defection poses serious security problems for Pyongyang, since he knows plenty about the social, economic and political conditions in his close-mouthed country. As a member of Pyongyang's inner circle, he could shed much light on what is going on in the enigmatic nation, especially at the top. Even close associates from outside Korea are stunned...
...North Korea's elite Kim Il Sung University and Moscow University in the late 1950s. Hwang would be the highest-ranking North Korean official to defect to the South since the division of the Korean Peninsula a half-century ago. His stunning move puts Beijing, a traditional ally of Pyongyang, in a bind. Allowing him to fly to Seoul will embarrass and infuriate North Korea. South Korean officials are conferring with the Chinese government on how to bring Hwang to Seoul. Unless a face-saving compromise is found, a protracted diplomatic standoff looms. Why would such a senior and influential...
Richardson had just unpacked after his trip to Pyongyang to retrieve Hunziker when Sherry Early, an Albuquerque constituent, telephoned on Dec. 1 to plead for his help on behalf of her husband John, who was being held by Kerubino's forces in war-torn Sudan. Richardson says he never accepts a mission unless the family, the State Department and the country holding the hostage all invite him to mediate. Early, his Kenyan co-pilot and an Australian nurse were captured by Kerubino's men on Nov. 1, when their Red Cross plane landed at an airstrip near Gogrial. The plane...
...halt to violations of the armistice agreement that ended the war in 1953. The DMZ is the world's most heavily armed border, and probably the tensest. With North Korea mired in famine and economic stagnation, there is considerable apprehension among its neighbors that the Stalinist government in Pyongyang might seek a solution in a desperate attack on the South...
...violation of the armistice and the spirit of the post-cold war times. Some Koreans wonder whether President Kim Jong Il has a firm grip on things in the North or if his military might be getting out of hand. Analysts say it's more like business as usual. Pyongyang refused to accept a protest note last week. By Seoul's count, last week's episode, while the most dramatic in recent years, was the 310th infiltration by the North in the past 25 years and the 14th since...