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...Hanoi lies and awaits its end," cabled TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin, "with the gunfire rustling the tamarind leaves, and dogs barking through the night. Nanking fell to the sound of gunfire and the barking dogs upon such a quiet night one April, Shanghai one May, Pyongyang one December. No one knows when Hanoi will go too, but no one doubts that it will...
...Koreans* have watched a prosperous brood of Russians, Red Chinese and assorted satellites descend upon their country's rubble, poking through blasted factories, tinkering with ancient generators and spinning frames, burrowing into blocked-off coal mines. Last week about 8,000 North Koreans were at work converting downtown Pyongyang into the showplace of a new Red colony, with the usual shiny Stalin Boulevard and a marble International Hotel (185 rooms with bath), in preparation for a big Soviet celebration on Aug. 15. "The fronts of houses and buildings, at least," warned Pyongyang newspapers, Potemkin-style, "should be repaired...
According to Pyongyang radio, more than 700 Russian and European satellite technicians are already working in North Korea. Pyongyang propagandists dwell every day upon the affairs of the Soviet set: "Soviet Engineer Vandalenko is tirelessly restoring the Kim Chaik ironworks . . . Engineer Uburov is in charge at the Supung power plant, which is fast rising from the rubble...
...belong to the Russian-controlled "Soviet faction," while only one pays allegiance to the "Yenan faction," as the Red China side is called. Of the 15-man Presidium, ten members are "Soviets" against only two "Yenans" and three local North Korean Reds. Even culturally, the Chinese are in eclipse (Pyongyang high-school students have to spend one hour a day learning Russian...
North Koreans are helpless against the double invasion, but there have been stirrings of unrest among the work gangs. "Citizens are not welcoming the Russian and Chinese assistance with the correct spirit," admitted Pyongyang radio a couple of weeks ago. "They have failed to establish close relations with the friendly technical personnel . . ." The Communists are, however, well accustomed to putting up with that inevitable discomfort of colonialism, the dark hostility of the governed...