Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, 157
Nichols, Donald, 186–91, 198
Nikichenko, Alexei, 94, 97, 128
Nixon, Richard, 219, 221
No, Kenny. See No Kum Sok
Noguchi, Jun, 21
Noguchi Corporation, 5–6, 21, 27, 28, 44, 46–47
No Kum Sok
dreams of escape, 43, 70, 86, 99, 126–27
early years and family background, 4–6, 19–20, 21–24, 27–30, 36–38, 44, 46–47
education, 23, 29–30, 37–38, 42–43, 93, 206, 228
English studies and ability, 23, 29–30, 189, 206, 217, 228
family members’ fates in North Korea, 44, 130
feigned loyalty to Kim, 5, 9–10, 38, 43, 54, 86–87, 113, 147–49
first request for asylum, 43
and his mother, 155, 156–57, 159–61, 200, 206–8, 221, 229–30, 238
and Ho Kai, 118–19
political and pro-American views, 29–30, 36–37, 70, 99, 113, 160, 198
Russian language ability, 93, 108, 109
thoughts of assassinating Kim, 99, 127, 183
timeline, 245–47
—IN THE MILITARY
Battle Gazette, 86–87, 147, 167
and bombing of Chongjin, 68–71
combat experiences, 9–10, 112–14, 116–17, 121–24, 126–27, 129–31, 136, 140
at Dandong airfield, 125–27, 130–31, 136, 147–49, 157–58
in final months of war, 155–59
flight training, 9–10, 76–78, 83–87, 92–94, 97, 99, 108–10, 113, 141–44, 206
friendship with Kun Soo Sung, 86–87, 147, 167–68
naval academy entrance and education, 43–47, 53–54, 59–60, 68–71, 76–78, 228
at Uiju airfield, 9–10, 98–100, 121–24, 157–59
and war’s beginning, 59–60
after war’s end, 167–69, 172–74
Workers’ Party membership, 147
—ESCAPE
escape flight and landing, 10–11, 163, 176–81, 184–85
handling by CIA, 203–8, 210–11, 214–18, 220–22, 229
initial reception and interrogations by U.S. forces, 181–83, 185–92, 201
Kim’s reaction to, 184
media attention and public relations, 183–84, 185, 191, 196, 198–201, 218, 220–22, 230
and Operation Moolah reward, 10–11, 154, 187, 190–91, 200, 203, 214–17, 219–22, 239
planning of, 126–27, 142–44, 167–69, 174–76, 237
reunion with his mother, 206–8
South Korean reaction to, 207, 217, 218
time on Okinawa, 203–8, 209–12, 214–18
U.S. handling and testing of No’s plane, 182, 195, 201–3, 209–12
and U.S. immigration, 198–99, 200, 201, 217–18, 229
—IN THE U.S.
American university studies, 216, 218, 220, 222, 228, 230
arrival and early years, 218, 219–22, 228–31
marriage, family, and later life, 229–30, 236–40
name change, 205, 222
speaking engagements, 228–29
North Korea, 2
arms production and militarism, 234, 236
farm collectivization, 198
food shortages, 197–98, 222, 234, 235
after Kim Il Sung’s death, 8
after Kim Jong Il’s death, 235–36, 240
Korean War propaganda, 8–9, 59–60, 71
maps, xii, xiii
political caste system, 47, 233, 234
postwar aid and development, 161–63, 183, 196–98, 214, 222, 227
postwar economy, 162, 197, 214, 235
postwar reeducation of POWs, 169
postwar relations with China, 83, 111–12, 162, 236
prison camps in, 7, 162
relations with U.S., 7–9, 236
under Soviet occupation, 5, 27–30, 39–42
See also Kim Il Sung; Korean War
North Korean People’s Army. See People’s Army
No Zae Hiub (No Kum Sok’s father), 5–6, 21–23, 28, 29, 147
illness and death, 37, 38, 42
political views, 5, 9, 21, 23, 36–37
nuclear weapons, 55, 84, 145
O’Donnell, Emmett, 67
Okinawa, No on, 203–8, 209–12, 214–18
test flights of No’s MiG, 202–3, 209–12
Operation Moolah, 10–11, 152–54, 183
Eisenhower and, 11, 193–95, 203, 215
No and, 10–11, 154, 187, 190–91, 200, 203, 214–17, 219–22, 239
Pak Hon Yong, 146–47, 169–70, 172
Partridge, Earle E., 186
Peng Dehuai, 87–89, 90, 226–227
People’s Army (North Korea), 42, 51, 53, 54
after Inchon, 75, 79
in the war’s first months, 63–64, 65–66
See also Korean War
People’s Livelihood Corps, 24
Pepelyaev, Yevgeny, 97
Petrov, A. M., 224
Philippines, U.S. in, 18
Pisanenko, Captain, 110
Poland, 226
Pork Chop Hill, 151
Pusan, 65, 66, 75
Pyongyang
possession of, during the war, 89, 91
U.S. bombing, 92, 137, 151–52
Ragland, Dayton, 121
Rakosi, Matyas, 226
Refugee-Escapee Act of 1957, 230
Rhee, Syngman, 3, 29, 60, 186, 207
Riggs National Bank, 219
Rittenberg, Sidney, 58, 234–35
Roosevelt, Theodore, 18
Rowe, Bonnie, 236, 237
Rowe, Clara, 230, 237
Rowe, Edmund, 236, 239–40
Rowe, Kenneth, 205, 222
See also No Kum Sok
Rowe, Raymond, 236
Rusk, Dean, 6
Russia and Russian troops. See Soviet pilots; Soviet Union
Sabre fighter jets, 114–15, 127–28
U.S. pilots and MiG strikes, 113–14, 133–36, 141–42, 152, 153–54
See also air war
Salter, James, 134
Scalapino, Robert A., 146
Sellers, Thomas, 133
Shen Zhihua, 102
Shtykov, Terentii Fomich, 48–49, 50, 52–53, 65, 66, 75, 90
Sinuiju, 39–41, 96
Sin Yoon Chul, 129
Smith, Walter Bedell, 194, 195, 203
South Korea, 2, 236
attack on Seoul presidential residence (1968), 238
maps, xii, xiii
North Korean flight to, before the
war, 2, 3
North Korean militarism and, 236
South Korean forces in the war, 54, 63–64, 66
U.S. withdrawal from (1949), 51
See also defections; Korean War; Rhee, Syngman
Soviet pilots, 126, 173
China’s request for Soviet air support, 81–82
as flight instructors, 94, 108–10
honcho pilots in combat, 96–97, 100–104, 106, 127–28, 198
later combat pilots, 128–29, 130–31, 142, 153
No’s contacts with, 92–94, 108–9, 110, 125, 128
See also air war; MiG-15 fighter jet; MiG Alley air war
Soviet Union
condemnation of U.S. bombing in North Korea, 67–68
ethnic Koreans in, 118
Ho Kai’s Soviet background, 118
and Hungarian Revolution, 227, 230
jo
int Soviet-Chinese delegation to Pyongyang (1956), 225–27
and Kim impostor story, 16–17
Kim’s flight to and return from, 27, 31–36
and Kim’s rise to power, 2, 32–36, 118
Kim’s wartime requests for help from, 75–76, 90, 94, 136–38
occupation of North Korea (1945–1949), 5, 27–30, 39–42
postwar aid to North Korea, 161–63, 183, 214, 227
postwar relations with North Korea, 83, 183, 225–27
prewar support for Kim’s invasion, 48–53, 54–59, 65–66, 79–80
relations with China, 54–55, 57, 58, 138, 227
relations with U.S., 50, 55
role in air war, 94, 96–97, 102, 127–29
after Stalin’s death, 150, 161–62, 223
and UN Security Council Korean War vote, 64
See also Soviet pilots; Stalin, Joseph
Stalin, Joseph, 49–50, 170
and Chinese forces in Korean War, 80–83, 88–89
and civilian casualties, 96
on criticism and self-criticism, 148
death of, 149
denounced by Khrushchev, 150
early interest in Kim, 2, 32–33
and Kim’s 1945 return to Korea, 31–32
Kim’s personal meetings and relationship with, 50–51, 90
Kim’s praise for and flattery of, 36, 38, 49
and Kim’s wartime requests for help, 66, 75–76, 90, 94, 136–38, 144–45
and Korean partition, 2
later opinion of Kim, 119, 145
and Mao, 54–55, 57, 58, 81–82
orders Kim to retreat, 82
and runup to Korean War, 48–53, 54–59, 64
and Shtykov, 48, 50, 52–53, 65
and Soviet occupation forces in North Korea, 29
and Soviet pilots’ participation in the war, 94, 101–2, 128
and training of North Korean pilots, 107
and U.S. involvement in Far East, 65, 79–80, 94, 102
See also Soviet Union; Stalinism
Stalinism
Kim’s embrace of, 50, 117–18, 145–46, 170, 222–23
in North Korea, 222–23, 227, 236
Soviet bloc’s “de-Stalinization,” 161–62, 223–27
Stratemeyer, George E., 66, 68, 132
Styron, William, 72
Su Chul Ha, 158
Suh, Dae-Sook, 19, 146
Sunan airfield, xiii, 172–73
as base for No’s escape flight, 174–77
Sutton, Jim, 180
Tae Kuk Sung, 122, 126, 141, 156
Taiwan, 58, 80
Taylor, Maxwell, 151
Thompson, Warren E., 116
Tianjin, No’s flight training in, 108–9
Tice, Clay, 134
Toksan Dam, 151
Tokyo, U.S. bombing of, 95
Truman, Harry S., 2, 64, 65, 73, 84, 102
Uiju airfield, xiii, 9–10, 98–100, 111–13, 121–24, 157–59
United Nations, 64, 67
United States
Mao and, 80
North Korean officials’ confessions of spying, 170–71
prewar relations with Korea, 18
relations with North Korea, 7–9, 236
and Soviet participation in Korean War, 102–3
speculation about U.S. involvement in Far East, 65, 79–80, 83, 94, 102
U.S.-Soviet relations, 50, 55
See also air war; Korean War; U.S. bombing of North Korea
University of Delaware, No at, 218, 220, 222, 228, 230
Upton, Arvin E., 220, 222
U.S. bombing of North Korea, 6–7, 66–70, 75, 79, 84
Chongjin, 68–70, 95
civilian casualties, 6–7, 44, 70, 96, 134, 137
Kim’s message to Stalin about, 136–37
napalm use, 95–96, 134, 137
No’s experiences of, 68–70, 78, 112
political legacy of, 9, 161
Pyongyang and surroundings, 92, 137, 151–52
Yalu bridges and Sinuiju, 94–97
U.S.S.R. See Soviet Union
Vandenberg, Hoyt, 102–3, 115
Wang Yong, 122, 123, 156, 184
Weathersby, Kathryn, 67
Werrell, Kenneth P., 133
Williams, Dave, 180, 181, 185
Wilson, Charles, 215
Wonsan assault, 82
Workers’ Party, 40, 43, 119–20, 234
1956 criticism of Kim’s leadership, 224–25
No’s membership, 147–49
World War II, 23–24, 37, 73, 94, 95, 194–95
Korean partition after, 2
Yalu River, 94–97
U.S. attacks on the Chinese side, 130–33, 135
See also MiG Alley air war
Yanji airfield, xiii
No’s training at, 78, 83–87
Yankovsky, Arseny (Andy Brown), 204–7, 209–10, 214, 215, 216, 230–31
Yeager, Chuck, 104, 202, 209–12
Yi Kang Guk, 171
Yi Pil Gyu, 224–25
Yi Sung Yop, 147, 170–71
Yoo Ki Un (No’s uncle), 38, 144, 155, 178, 184, 239
No’s 1953 contact with, 155, 156–57
political views, 5, 37
Yu Song Chol, 32, 33, 35
Zhou Enlai, 58, 81, 138, 144, 149
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