Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clash of interests in the mission was clear: the Americans were engaged in delicate negotiations to free the Pueblo's 82 crewmen, while Seoul, shaken by North Korea's escalating border raids was demanding pronouncements of American anger with the North Koreans. Vance avoided the verbal pyrotechnics which might have jeopardized the Pueblo talks, but at the same time the squawking South Koreans got essentially what they wanted. Vance's mere presence--and the 200 jet fighters the U.S. rushed to Korea--had the effect of renewing the blanket American commitment...
...going not only tough but unfamiliar, since they had to retake the streets almost house by house. "The first two days, it was a matter of learning this sort of thing," said one Marine commander, Colonel Ernest Cheatham. "The Marines haven't fought a fight like this since Seoul, back in 1950." As more and more blocks fell to the Marines, they commandeered brightly colored Honda motorcycles, small buses and cars, to ferry themselves back and forth to the action...
Less Than 1000%. South Korea's President Chung Hee Park was as determined as Kim. Seoul began to augment its regular forces by 15,000, announced it would arm 2,500,000 reservists and veterans. After Pueblo was seized last month, the U.S. began bringing its two divisions in the South up to their full 50,000-man strength, flew in planes to three Korean airbases, and promised to speed delivery of $30 million worth of military equipment designed to combat infiltration from the North. In addition, Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for an immediate military aid appropriation...
...Because Seoul's prime concern is the infiltration of terrorists from the North, Washington's preoccupation with Pueblo caused friction between the U.S. and South Korea. After a spate of Korean protest demonstrations, editorials and official statements, the U.S. dispatched Troubleshooter Cyrus Vance to Seoul as a special presidential emissary empowered to discuss the "grave threat" from the North. In addition, Johnson went out of his way to laud "this steadfast ally" when he made his request for special military aid to South Korea. By week's end the handholding operation appeared to have been successful...
...North Koreans managed to get through the DMZ barbed wire and mines unnoticed but, en route on their four-day march to Seoul, they made the mistake of asking a woodcutter about the capital's security checkpoints. He notified the police, who began to set up road and street blocks to intercept the assassins. Even so, they got within several hundred yards of the Blue House before police sighted and challenged them. A brief battle ensued, in which a policeman and a guerrilla were killed, and one young guerrilla, Lieut. Shin Jo Kim, was captured. The rest...