Word: hee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...some 20 Congressmen. South Korean Rice Broker Tongsun Park was a well-heeled friend who entertained lavishly and contributed thousands of dollars to their election campaigns. To the Park Chung Hee regime in Seoul, Businessman Park (no kin to the autocratic President) was a wily influence peddler who over the past decade spent millions of dollars in Washington to head off threatened cutbacks in U.S. military aid or the withdrawal of American troops from South Korea. In fact, TIME has learned, federal investigators have turned up evidence that Park was a master swindler. In a scheme worthy of Terry...
South Korean President Park Chung Hee was formally notified of U.S. plans for the troop withdrawal last week by Philip Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During a three-hour session in the Blue House, the presidential mansion in central Seoul, Park took the news-by then hardly a surprise-calmly and thanked his visitors for all the U.S. has done for his country. He was aware, Park said, that the G.I.s could not remain in Korea forever...
...dictator Park Chung Hee keeps the country in a continuous state of paranoia, based upon the alleged imminence of attack by North Korea. It may bring a little perspective to this situation to realize that the South has 35 million people to the North's 16 million; a GNP in 1974 of $17.5 billion to the North's approximate $5 billion and armed forces totalling 625,000 to the North's 467,000 (International Institute for Strategic Studies, London...