Word: pyongyang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...talks were suspended last summer because of Pyongyang's objections to the principal South Korean delegate, CIA Chief Lee Hu Rak. There is now speculation among foreign and South Korean officials that Park will appoint a new chief delegate, thereby starting a process of downgrading a hated lieutenant who has clearly become an international and domestic liability...
Moon became an electrical engineer before he found his mission after World War II in Communist North Korea. He fell in with some Pentecostal Christians in Pyongyang's underground church-among whom there were already predictions of a Korean Messiah-and developed a following of his own. Imprisoned by the Communists for nearly three years, he was liberated in 1950. By 1954 he had founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity-known more simply as the Unification Church. In the same year his wife of ten years left him because, he claims, "she could...
...will meet in a special session in Kuala Lumpur next week. Among other matters on their agenda is whether and how the organization should expand to include Burma, Cambodia, Laos and the two Viet Nams. South Korean diplomats hint that they will not only accelerate their plodding discussions with Pyongyang on reunification but also put out diplomatic feelers to Moscow and Peking...
...serious snag into prospects for reunification. The two governments have been holding preliminary negotiations since May, but Park did not change the present constitutional article defining South Korea's territory as the whole Korean Peninsula and its adjacent islands-thus encompassing North Korea as well. Last week Pyongyang announced that North Korea's constitution was also being revised "to legally solidify socialist achievements...
...state of emergency declared last December. These powers, invoked on the grounds of an "imminent attack" from North Korea, were used to stifle the political opposition. His new action, moreover, appears to have increased tensions and imperiled the talks with North Korea-the opposite of his stated intentions. Radio Pyongyang last week charged that Park had acted "to dampen the desire and aspiration of the South Korean people for peaceful reunification...