Word: unificationism
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"The moment has now come when we must decide whether to carry on by warfare a struggle for the unification of Korea or whether to pursue this goal by political and other methods . . . It is my profound conviction that . . . acceptance of the armistice is required of the United Nations and...
Political Union. Eisenhower noted that the ROK government, in alliance with the U.N., had not only denied the Communists "the fruits of aggression," but was actually in possession of more territory than it held when the war began. He assured Rhee: "The unification of Korea is an end to which...
¶ A U.S. policy which will make unification of Korea the "central objective" in the U.N. and in the international political conference that will follow the signing of a truce.
Meaning Business. When General Mark Clark, Lieut. General Maxwell Taylor and U.S. Ambassador Ellis Briggs came to sweet-talk him on his terrace, proud, headstrong Syngman Rhee held firm. "You came here to save us," he told one caller. "Are we saved if, after three years of war, you sign...
Rhee dispatched his defense minister on a tour of front-line ROK commanders to test their loyalty. In the cities, hundreds of posters were slapped up on walls of bombed-out buildings (sample slogans, usually in English: "Give us unification or give us death." "Young men, hold on to your...