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Hoping to disperse the rioters, Park ordered all colleges and universities closed until July 4, which is one day before the regular summer holiday begins. Then, as an appeasing gesture, Park reluctantly fired his top collaborator: Kim Chong Pil, Park's nephew by marriage and head of Park's Democratic-Republican Party. Kim is hated by the students because of the ruthless way he once ran Park's Central Intelligence Agency and because he has been instrumental in the controversial negotiations with Japan. Kim is fond of saying, "I am nothing but a shadow of the President...
...practice the surly manners of their close ally and big brother, Red China. The two sides walked in from opposite ends of the Quonset hut that serves as conference room, sat down without greeting at the table placed squarely on the demarcation line. North Korea's General Chang Chong Whan launched into a vituperative speech accusing the U.S. of repeatedly violating the armistice and plotting to renew the war. U.S. General George Cloud sighed wearily and doodled on a pad during the Chinese and English translations following Chang's speech in Korean. Then Cloud ticked off Communist violations...
...lifted his ban on civilian political activity last January, the heat has been on South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee. Anger over the strong-arm tactics of the feared Central Intelligence Agency forced Park to sack his top hatchet man (and nephew by marriage), C.I.A. Boss Kim Chong Pil. Investigations revealed wholesale corruption within South Korea's C.I.A., and charges were leveled that Park had done nothing to relieve South Korea's economic chaos. Threatened with civil war by disaffected members of his own military junta, Park reluctantly bowed out of the forthcoming civilian presidential race...
...restore civilian political rule (TIME, Dec. 28), at least in name. In fact, junta members planned merely to swap their khaki for mufti and continue to run the country; Park himself was the leading candidate for the presidency. This pleasant prospect was shattered last January when Brigadier General Kim Chong Pil, husband of Park's niece and boss of the dreaded Central Intelligence Agency, quit the C.I.A. in order to grab control of the regime's civilian political organization, the Democratic-Republican Party. With Park's tacit approval, Kim, whose 30,000 snoopers had kept tabs...
Behind Park will be Colonel Kim Chong Pil, head of the powerful Central Intelligence Agency, the quiet Korean who is even more powerful than Park. Together, the two have gagged the newspapers, and got rid of thousands of political enemies by forbidding them to participate in public life. Yet of 40,000 political prisoners locked up in the first months of the military coup, a mere 700 remain in jail...