Word: chungs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other officials. Not surprisingly, the three days of hearings further depressed relations between the U.S. and South Korea, which were already at an all-time low. Committee Special Counsel Leon Jaworski expressed the mood on Capitol Hill in his opening statement before the committee. The regime of President Park Chung Hee, he said, had "no right to cover up and obstruct our investigation," and he asked Congress to pass a resolution demanding that South Korea give its "full and unlimited cooperation" in providing "total disclosure" about any Korean who had sought congressional favors...
Both Cohen and Reischauer are well known as outspoken critics of President Park Chung Hee's mistreatment of human rights in South Korea...
...troops from South Korea over a five-year period, the fact is that most Americans would not support another war in Asia. Nor should they. The United States has no business supporting a country so lacking in human rights and with the dictatorial regime South Korea has. President Park Chung Hee, who came to power in 1961 through a military coup, has changed the Korean constitution to assure him a lifetime of power. "He has crippled the opposition political parties, punished the exercise of free speech, prevented free association, censored the media, curbed the courts, subdued the universities, restricted religious...
...first, Kondracke whines that Korea has gotten a raw deal in the U.S. press. Just because Park Chung Hee is supported by U.S. troops and aid doesn't mean we should scrutinize him more carefully than we do other dictators. Really, Kondracke writes, "it all seems no way to treat an ally." But if you don't scrutinize allies, who do you scrutinize...
...sure, after Park's indictment was unsealed, the White House revealed that President Carter had already asked South Korea's President Park Chung Hee to deliver the elusive wheeler-dealer to the U.S. for questioning before the House Ethics Committee by Special Counsel Leon Jaworski. But the Korean leader has turned aside repeated inquiries by U.S. diplomats about Park, often citing an unwillingness to abridge his "human rights." Rejecting the latest entreaties from Washington, Seoul's Foreign Minister Park Tong Jin observed curtly that "as a fully sovereign and law-governed nation, Korea finds no reason...