Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alarmed by a new U.S. intelligence appraisal revealing that North Korea is significantly more powerful than previously reported. The assessment places the size of Pyongyang's army at up to 600,000 men and 2,600 tanks, a boost of 25% over the last U.S. estimate. Against this, Seoul fields an army of 560,000 troops and 880 tanks. The South is at a 2-to-l disadvantage in tactical aircraft and trails 4 to 1 in warships...
...comparison with what some Far Eastern countries pay defectors, Uncle Sam is a piker. Early this month, when a lowly antitank gunner, Corporal Kwon Chong Hun, 20, defected to Seoul from North Korea, he was celebrated as an "antiCommunist gladiator" and given the equivalent of $20,000. Seoul also provided him with free housing and his choice of a college scholarship or free farm land. He received several job offers. An association of Seoul businessmen whose ancestors came from Kwon's home province is trying to find him a bride. Observes Kwon, understandably: "My decision to defect...
Inspired by its success with Kwon, the South Korean government has issued a price list for defectors from the North: from $10,300 for a private to $103,000 for a general. Those who bring military hardware along with them qualify for huge bonuses: Seoul offers $5.7 million for a North Korean warship and $1 million for an aircraft, but only $60 for a carbine. On top of the bonuses, Seoul promises to take care of defectors for the rest of their lives...
Over the summer Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty, spoke about Harvard's new Core Curriculum to officials from two universities in Indonesia, one in Yugoslavia, a woman's college in Seoul, S. Korea, 18 Australian universities, and the University of Montreal. That, says Whitlock, is only a sampling of the hundreds of requests for information about the Core that have come into his office form colleges and universities both in this country and abroad...
...other Congressmen are suspected of having received money from former South Korea Ambassador Kim Dong Jo. But the Seoul government adamantly refuses to make him available for questioning by congressional investigators, even though the House has threatened to retaliate by withholding $56 million in foreign aid. "There is nothing more we can do," Jaworski said last week. "It has been decided at a very high level that under no circumstances will [Kim] talk. And so we're completely out of soap...