Word: yalu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Injury & Insult. In keeping with the new nationalism, Kim permits women to wear colorful national costume rather than pajama-style uniforms; men wear Western-style suits. Even the Peking-to-Pyongyang railroad is "Koreanized" when it clatters across the Yalu into North Korea: the Chinese dining car is unhitched and replaced by one serving spicy Korean kimchi...
Your successful, and as yet unexplained, infiltration of the Rand Corporation in the person of your secret agent Allen S. Whiting, who wrote China Crosses the Yalu exonerating China from the charge of aggression in the Korean police action, is further proof that you will stop at nothing to hide your true nature. And your even more clever takeover of the New York Times and the Herald Tribune for the purposes of announcing to the world that it was India and not China who started the border war, compounded by your diabolical plot of calling unilaterally for a cease-fire...
...miles, and the route lies over rugged terrain through a narrow coastal strip that can be easily attacked from sea or air. Moreover, Chinese transport remains as shoddy as it was during the Korean War. Whenever Chinese troops moved more than 450 miles beyond their supply lines at the Yalu, they bogged down...
That is the fear of a confrontation with Communist China. It troubles President Johnson, who talks in terms of mortal peril about coming to grips "with 700 million Chinese." It came to afflict even General Douglas Mac Arthur, the old hero of Inchon and champion of crossing the Yalu, who in his declining years warned Johnson never to get involved in a war on the mainland of Asia...
...harsh, warlike noises out of Peking last week were quite clearly intended to evoke American memories of the day when the Chinese Communists poured across the Yalu River in 1950. "You have been taught a lesson on this score in the Korean war!" cried Radio Peking in an unusual broadcast in English beamed to the U.S. "Do you want the lesson repeated in Indo-China...