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...when the aircraft began to take dips of several hundred meters at a time. As they nervously fastened their belts, they saw through the open cockpit door that the crew was frantically prying open the floorboards with screwdrivers, possibly looking for the safety instructions. When they landed back in Rangoon, a group of Japanese package tourists thought they were in Bangkok...
...arrival procedures. A U.S. diplomat in Seoul said later that the South Koreans had "changed the plan several times, the last time being less than 30 minutes before Kim's plane arrived." The South Koreans are highly security conscious, all the more so since the 1983 incident in Rangoon, Burma, when several South Korean Cabinet ministers were killed by a bomb supposedly set by agents from Communist North Korea. Added to that was the guards' obvious animosity toward Kim. Explaining that Kim would not be passing through a VIP area at the airport, one agent told reporters bluntly...
...Seoul. But a week after Ronald Reagan's three-day visit, South Korean officials were still aglow over the President's picture-perfect tour. For a government still recovering from the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 last September and from the terrorist bombing in Rangoon last month that killed 16 South Korean officials, the Reagan trip was a welcome morale booster. Most important, the visit assured perpetually edgy Seoul of the U.S. commitment to its defense, especially against its northern neighbor...
...rhetoric was noticeably less restrained than it had been in Japan. He assailed the Soviet Union again for the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, pausing for silence in memory of the victims. He denounced the "despicable North Korean attack" that killed 16 South Korean government officials in Rangoon. By inference, Reagan defended the authoritarian nature of the South Korean government as a response to the pressure it is under from North Korea. Said the President: "The United States realizes how difficult political development is when, even as we speak, a shell from the North could destroy this assembly...
...tenacious provocation by the band of Communists in North Korea." A possible motive: North Korean frustration over South Korea's increasingly active diplomacy toward nations that, like Burma, maintain ties with North Korea. The government of North Korea called the accusation "preposterous and ridiculous." Police in Rangoon arrested two Koreans last week, though there was no confirmation that they were from the North. The Burmese reported that another Korean was killed when he tried to escape arrest...