Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though Seoul unsuccessfully sought a commitment that the U.S. would retaliate automatically against an attack from the North, Vance partly pacified the South by renewing promises to hold prompt talks to meet such a threat...
FOREIGN RELATIONS Soothing Seoul American forces in South Korea have been strengthened massively in the month since North Korea seized the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo. More than 200 jets have been flown into South Korean bases to back...
troops stationed in the country. An ar mada of 20 warships, including the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Ranger, has been positioned in the Sea of Japan off North Korea. And last week, after a hurried trip to Seoul by Special Presidential Envoy Cyrus Vance, it became clear that South Korea is about to be shored up further with some of America's most advanced conventional weapons...
...secret U.S.-North Korean talks at Panmunjom on the fate of the Pueblo's 82 surviving crewmen. Moreover, they are worried that the Viet Nam war, in which they have nearly 50,000 troops, has so taxed U.S. capabilities that Washington would be unwilling to come to Seoul's aid in case of a Communist attack...
Bellicose as Usual. To assuage Seoul's sensibilities, Troubleshooter Vance joined up with U.S. Ambassador William Porter for five days in South Korea, came away with a renewed declaration of amity between the two countries. Park's government was promised modern weapons. In return, South Korea consented to forget its concern for face and not oppose the bilateral Panmunjom talks, which the U.S. feels must remain secret to be effective...