European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d Jenco against future swaps of a Pons for hostages Page 2 d . Rated top instructor of foreign military forces Page 5 q sunday s pro football results sports Section of Fries Thoi Vitlo unofficial Fui Lution fou vol. 45, no 214 tuesday november 18, 1986 d8693a n. Korea s Kim reported slain communists say he s ave and we but South Korea puts troops on Alert Kim a swing Seoul South Korea up South Korea s defense ministry announced monday that aged North korean Leader Kim in Sung has been shot to death. The report was flatly denied by Pyong Yang s embassy in peking. The South koreans said Kim s death was announced sunday Over North korean propaganda loudspeakers at the 38lh parallel dividing the two Korea but the american military command in Seoul which has 40,000 troops on the Frontier said it could not confirm he assassination report. The new York times reported Hal in Washington High level military sources said the Pentagon had received reports of Kim death As Early As saturday. The sources said no extraordinary Alert had been ordered for american forces in the Region Kim 74, came to Power in Pyongyang in 1945 after Korea was officially divid Hasenfus Pardon Picoc eckjans Managua. Nicaragua a jus Tice minister Rodrigo Reyes on sunday. Rejected he possibility of Pardon american Eugene Hasenfus who 30 Yean in prison for his part in eap ont delivery flight to . Rebels. There is no reason Cardan him Reyes hid one Day Tifa political court handed Down the dict and the sen tence. Earlier a emacs by president Danie Onega had in speculation that Hasen tin 4s, of Harinett wis., might eventually a pardoned. 3 has not commented on the Case jtncs6e american mercenary Wai con Vic led id his stand on a possible Par Don is Nom pwn. Reyes of prosecutor in the Case said if a paran it applicable i am sure there will be Achi Clion by the Popula Tion and the Auto cities would have to explain that step pro government Nev Napers on Sun Day called the Hasenfuss dict a convict lion of the United states the 30 years for a pen Alty for Yankee intervention film. Al see Hasenfus on Page 28 Szultz finds no need for More arms to Iran Washington a Secretary of stale George Shulli said sunday the United stale should make no More arms shipment to Iran contending i Don t see any need for further signals of . Good Faith to moderate Irani ans but Bultz said he did not have the authority to speak for the entire Reagan administration. Related stories Page 2, 3 a 8. Meanwhile John Poindexter presi Dent Reagan s National Security adviser said the . Arms embargo against Iran still stands and said he remains optimistic that More hostages might be re leased by pro Iran terrorist groups in Lebanon. But Robert Mcfarlane former nation Al Security adviser who Mads Ai least one secret trip to Iran said his contacts among moderate iranians Are in danger of being killed now that his efforts have see Shultz on Page 28 cd into a communist North and capitalist South at the end of world War ii. He ruled the secretive and isolated nation of 19.6 million people with an Iron hand establishing a cult of personality Hal led to All advances being attributed to him and his policies. Kim s son 44-year-old Kim Jong-11, has been groomed for Many Cara to succeed him As Leader of the nation. Diplomats in Tokyo and peking the usual listening posts for news about the secretive anal isolationist communist government in Pyongyang also said they could not confirm South Korea s report Hal Kim had been shot to death. This is not True. The great Leader is Well a North korean embassy official in peking said when asked about the re port. The circumstances arc very a North korean spokesman in Tokyo denounced the report As a South korean plot and said official radio Pyongyang news reports did not mention the reported assassination and was carrying regular Kwan la the unofficial North korean representative in Tokyo angrily dismissed the South korean announce ment of Kim s assassination. We re i scaling this As a South korean demagogic plot he said. You la notice that Seoul is the Only source of the information. We Don to believe these rumours. This is typical of South Korea s South korean defense ministry spokesman Lee Hung Shik said there were no official confirmations or com ments from any North korean radio out lets on the Loudspeaker North korean loudspeakers said i in Sung has died of l wounds " Lee said. F gunshot Only. Kim s sounds South Korea s 600,000-Man army see Kim on Page 28 noway no we the mounding menage Bam an estimated 10moo pal Cikut loyalist a Blag in Bellut of the an no Lenaiy of the Tinglu of the Anlo rub agreement that Titei he Litho in Rifah rep Elk a role in null not Northern found where prot Tutt outnumber cil Bollt 3-2. Riot ing killed two people and injured 44 police office and 27 drilling
