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According to Emergency Decree No. 9, criticizing the South Korean government is an offense punishable by not less than a year in prison. The decree, promulgated last May, was designed by President Park Chung Hee to stifle opposition, principally from intellectuals and Christian clergymen, to his authoritarian rule. But dissent continues in South Korea, and so, in the spirit of Decree No. 9, does repression...
...frontal assault against the South. Moreover, despite some resemblances, South Korea is vastly different from South Viet Nam. It is a cohesive country with a strong government, a booming economy and powerful, well-equipped armed forces. While there is internal opposition to the often repressive measures of President Park Chung Hee, there is nothing remotely resembling civil war; even the most outspoken dissidents, in fact, loathe the Communist monolith in Pyongyang, and North Korean infiltrators are almost invariably turned in by citizens to the South's security forces...
...Blue House, official residence of South Korean President Park Chung Hee, sits amidst manicured gardens in the hills overlooking Seoul. There last week TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, Tokyo Bureau Chief William Stewart and Correspondent S. Chang met with Park for 1½ hours. Relaxed and self-assured, Park alternately smoked a pipe and cigarettes as he propounded his views. Excerpts...
Despite his penchant for authoritarianism, South Korea's President Park Chung Hee seems positively Jeffersonian compared with his counterpart north of the Demilitarized Zone. No other country can rival North Korea in its thoroughgoing control over every aspect of the lives of its 15 million citizens, or in the total deification of its leader, President Kim Il Sung...
...years ago this month, there are widespread fears of a new attack. North Korea's hard-lining Communist President Kim Il Sung, newly returned from a conference in Peking last month, increased Southern fears by declaring: "We are prepared for war." South Korea's strongman President Park Chung Hee responded with equal bellicosity, warning that the South is also ready for a fight. In this policy, Park has the support of even the opposition politicians. At a special session of the National Assembly, they joined in unanimous support of a government-sponsored resolution "to crush any provocation...