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There was no issue of the newspaper on May 9, 1971, on account of Eid Miladun Nabi. The following excerpt has been taken from the previous day’s issue.
WASHINGTON: The Navy reported on Thursday [May 6] the US destroyer “Hanson” collided with a Russian tug late Wednesday night in the Korea Strait 80 miles from the Japanese Coast. In a statement issued at the Pentagon, the Navy said the vessels suffered today minor damage and that no crewmen were injured. The Soviet vessel was identified as the tug “Diomid”.
The Hanson sustained six-foot dent on the [starboard] bow. This was the fifth such incident in waters off Korea since 1966 involving a US warship and a Russian vessel. The last collision occurred on Jan 31, 1968, when the destroyer “Rowan” and the Soviet merchant ship “Kapitan Vislobokov” collided 95 miles east of Pohang, South Korea. The “Hanson” . was on a “routine mission” in international waters. Agencies
North Korean ships were unusually active in the month of April, amid a spate of media reports suggesting that foreign goods had reappeared on Pyongyang store shelves after months of imported food shortages. Last month, at least 27 North Korea-linked ships visited Chinese ports and traversed the narrow Korea Strait that bridges North Korea’s east […]
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Here’s What You Need to Remember: Just days after hundreds of thousands of North Korean troops poured over the 38th Parallel into South Korea, starting the Korean War, U.S. President Harry Truman directed the Pentagon to scramble whatever aid was necessary to rescue the beleaguered Republic of Korea.
But while air and sea power could rapidly intervene from bases in Japan, U.S. ground forces required ports if they were ever to arrive in meaningful numbers with heavy tanks and artillery. However, the pace of the North Korean advance meant that the southeastern port of Pusan was the only viable option.