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...repeatedly vowed that he will reunite Korea and force American "imperialists" to withdraw from the peninsula. But Kim's ground forces would find the going heavy. Seoul has about 650,000 well-trained men in its land, sea and air forces, an estimated 200,000 more than Pyongyang...
...been conducting delicate preliminary negotiations with North Korea through Red Cross intermediaries in the border village of Panmunjom. At stake is the return to their homelands of an estimated 10 million people displaced by the Korean War. Park was convinced that internal troubles in the South could give Pyongyang an excuse to launch a propaganda campaign against his government. The flinty President might have been worried about something else too. Eleven years ago, massive student protests against corruption were instrumental in bringing down the government of his predecessor, the late Syngman Rhee...
NORTH KOREA was recently accused of training Mexican as well as Ceylonese terrorists (TIME, April 19). According to the Mexican government, 50 young Mexicans using North Korean passports traveled to Pyongyang by way of the Soviet Union-a clear indication to the Mexican government that the Russians were in on the deal. The North Koreans, moreover, gave members of the Mexican group $26,000 for travel expenses and the recruiting of additional guerrillas in Mexico...
...clandestine organization. They named it Movimiento de Acción Revolucionaria (MAR) and called the guerrilla unit the 2 de Octubre, the date of the massacre. Fabricio Gómez Souza, one of the students, made contact with the North Korean embassy in Moscow and arranged to visit Pyongyang. There he received the North Koreans' assurance that they would give the Mexican students political and military training. Back in Moscow, he was handed $10,000 by the North Korean embassy to finance the students' travels...
...returned to Mexico, where he recruited several more aspiring guerrillas. In order to avoid suspicion by Western intelligence agencies, they traveled individually to East Berlin, where they exchanged their Mexican passports for false North Korean passports. They regrouped in Moscow, where they visited for ten days before flying to Pyongyang on a Soviet Aeroflot plane. Next came six months of training in guerrilla tactics, radiotelegraphy, judo and use of weapons. Retracing their steps through Moscow and East Berlin, the youthful firebrands returned to Mexico and, during the next year, with another $16,000 supplied by North Korea, recruited 40 more...