Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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WITHIN hours after the first Russian troops had entered Pyongyang in September 1945, nearly every billboard and wall space in the city was plastered with effective, brightly colored posters extolling the military and civil virtues of the Soviet Union. In every section of the city (pop. 300,000), Russian-trained Korean agitators hammered home the same ideas from soapboxes and sound trucks. Within a few days Pyongyang's Peony Point Park had been named Molotov Park, the Taedong River had become the Lenin River, and Bell Road, the city's main thoroughfare, had been renamed Stalin Street...
...days of liberation, was still nominally in office, but the real work of running the city was in the hands of bluff, vigorous U.S. Colonel Charles R. Munske. Colonel Munske makes it clear that he is not in Pyongyang as a military governor. He is commander of a U.S. Civil Assistance Team, which seems to be the title given by the U.S. Army to a military government unit whose existence it doesn't want to admit...
Politics & the Police. Like that of all U.S. military government officers in North Korea, Munske's work is complicated by a high-level snafu. U.S. Civil Assistance Teams have been given no clearly defined political objectives, and each team is theoretically responsible only to the U.S. tactical commander in its area. In the Pyongyang area the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team is trying to set up local administration in the small communities around the city. The airborne officers are working hard, but they are not trained for the work, and it seems doubtful that their efforts will have...
...Legal Aid Bureau, under whose constitution the group now falls, also helps those who cannot pay lawyers, but it handles only civil cases and will not defend contestants in criminal cases. The Volunteers will take nothing but criminal cases...
Among those too poor to pay for legal aid, the committee has found that the number of criminal cases far exceeds that of civil...