Word: yonge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles respectively southwest of Inchon, Seoul's port. Presumably the purpose was to establish bases for U.S. air attacks on the enemy's coastwise shipping, and for a possible future seaborne attack on the mainland. On the southern coast, the South Koreans captured the town of Tong-yong, 25 miles southwest of Masan, across a narrow strait from Koje Island...
...Yong, 61, North Korean Foreign Minister, who last week bumptiously protested to the U.N. against U.S. "barefaced aggression," vowed to the U.N. that the Northern Reds would press their "holy war" against South Korea. Born in South Korea, he joined the Chinese Young Men's Communist Party in 1920, went in 1927 to Moscow, where he studied for three years at Lenin University. In 1936 he organized a Communist underground in Korea. After World War II he organized a Communist opposition in South Korea, was indicted in 1946, but escaped to the north...
Korean Marshal Ch'oe Yong Gun, 44, chief of staff of the North Korean army. In 1922, at 16, he was ringleader of a school strike. He went to China in 1925, studied at the Whampoa Military Academy, then went to Russia in 1931. He served in the famed Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army...
This year Coach Kee took three new finds to Boston: National Champion Yun Chil Choi, 21, who is a freshman at Korea Christian College, and two high-school students, Kil Yoon Song, 21, and Kee Yong Ham, 19. Their 7,000-mile plane trip was financed by the Korean government and popular national subscription. Their 26-mile trip over the marathon route was fueled by Korean kimchi, a mixture of garlic and onions, hot peppers and chopped cabbage...
Baby-faced Kee Yong Ham came in first (2 hr. 32 min. 39 sec.). With true Korean courtesy, he announced that he was disappointed because Korean Champion Yun, who placed third, was not able to win. Yun, suffering from leg cramps and a pre-race injury, had barely caught John Lafferty of Jersey City with a closing 100-yd. sprint to make the Korean sweep complete...