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...included Hu Rak Lee, 48, director of South Korea's powerful Central Intelligence Agency, an aide and two bodyguards. At Panmunjom, Lee and his party transferred to a North Korean car, crossed the border and drove to the nearby village of Kaesong. There they boarded a helicopter for Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Lee was the first high-ranking South Korean official to visit Pyongyang since the armistice ending the fighting of the Korean War was signed in 1953. His secret trip paved the way for the most important event in Korea since then: an agreement...
...reuniting families separated by the armistice line. In reality, both "Red Cross" delegations contained members with wide experience in foreign affairs and security matters. The progress of the Red Cross negotiations, which will formally begin later this year with a precise agenda, led to Lee's visit to Pyongyang, where he talked with Premier Kim II Sung and Kim's younger brother and heir apparent, Politburo Member Kim Yong Ju. When he arrived back in Panmunjom from his historic journey, Lee subsequently confessed, "I felt dizzy." Three weeks later Kim sent his second Vice Premier, Pak Sung Chul...
...Sino-So-viet war. South Korean President Park, in the wake of President Nixon's trip to Peking, evidently decided that, instead of waiting for the withdrawal of the 43,000 U.S. troops still stationed on South Korean soil, it would be better to start talking with Pyongyang while the Americans are still there...
Like Nixon's Peking visit, the Seoul-Pyongyang agreement represented a further dissolution of the legacy of the cold war. As a senior State Department official put it, "The significance of this event goes far beyond Korea. It's a message to all who will listen that if the superpowers can rearrange their relationships, then so can the smaller powers. There's plenty of room for accommodation around the world...
...stadium stands, thousands of youngsters flipped color cards to form a pictorial backdrop for another 45,000 youngsters performing ballet and theatrical maneuvers, including realistic battle scenes from the Korean War. Thousands of other Pyongyang residents, carrying pink paper flowers, watched the spectacle: "The two-hour performance included a series of nearly 200 mosaics," wrote Salisbury, "that made those half-time card spectacles at Big Ten football games look like amateur night...