Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Thirteenth in population (30,000,000) among the world's nations, but only 42nd in area, Korea is washed on three sides by salt water-the Japan Sea, the Korea Strait, and the Yellow Sea (see map). It can be said to begin with a mountain, the far northern peak of Paektu (White Head), coated with glistening pumice and sheltering in its ancient crater the deep Dragon Prince's Pool...
Tigers & Timber. The northern mountains, covered with snow from September to March, are rugged and heavily forested with spruce, larch, birch, juniper, maple and walnut. In the forests lurk leopards wild boars, wolves and tigers. Still a menace to the northern peasants, tigers were so much a part of Korean life 30 years ago as to justify the Chinese sneer: "The Korean hunts the tiger one half of the year and the tiger hunts the Korean the other half...
North Korea produces more than tigers and timber. It has 75% of all the industry on the peninsula and in the Musan fields of the far northeast lie Korea's largest iron deposits; from the northern mountains come gold, copper and most of the country's coal-anthracite, bituminous and lignite...
...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...
...Schools & Colleges Association): Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who started out with a five-room adobe hacienda); Alexander Harris (who rose from a polisher of cigarette-lighters to president of the Ronson Art Metal Works, Inc.); Thomas E. Courtney (from $6-a-week car washer to president of the $14 million Northern Illinois Corp...