north Korea
See also: North Korea
English
Proper noun
- (dated) Alternative form of North Korea.
- 1945 September 14 [1945 September 12], “North Korean Leader Slain in Reign of Terror”, in Chicago Daily Tribune[1], volume CIV, number 221, page 3, column 5:
- A Korean Communist selected as a vice chairman of the government for north Korea in the Russian occupied zone was assassinated as he was leaving a conference with Col. Gen. Chistjakoff, commander of the soviet 25th army, a Korean refugee said today.
- 1946 February 22 [1946 February 20], “New Korean Chairman”, in China Mail, number 33280, →OCLC, page 4, column 3:
- The Korean press reported that General Kim Ilsung had been made chairman of the "people's commissariat" in the Russian occupation zone, north Korea.
- 1947 April 11, Richard J. H. Johnston, “Soviet Parley Bid in Korea Expected”, in The New York Times[2], volume XCVI, number 32,584, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 18, column 3:
- Stating that while such aid is appreciated to some degree, the leftist newspapers demand a union of north and south Korea through cooperation of the two occupying powers, followed by complete independence. […]
Many believe that in the face of the contemplated assistance from the United States the Soviet forces in north Korea will be unable to withstand the pressure with propaganda alone.
That the Soviet Union has already recognized this is indicated, according to informed sources, by the removal of the Soviet commander in north Korea, I. Chistiakov, a Guards colonel general, who was replaced a few days ago by Lieut. Gen. Gennadi Petrovitch Korotkov, former commander of the Soviet Tenth Guards Army in Estonia.
- 1947 September 10, Thoburn T. Brumbaugh, “Soviet Nightmare in Korea”, in The Christian Century, volume LXIV, number 37, Chicago: Christian Century Foundation, page 1077, column 1:
- Moreover, the reactionary economic and political forces in south Korea show little sympathy with the commission meetings now being held in an effort to achieve American-Russian rapprochement. Instead, their program calls for American pressure to dislodge Russia and the Communists from north Korea, by force if necessary.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:north Korea.