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Last week the world heard reports that the Premier's son Ken had been trying to do as he had been done by. The unconfirmed reports came from the Korean underground by way of Kilsoo K. Haan, Washington agent of the Sino-Korean People's League. They said that Ken Inukai was in a Japanese jail charged with aiding the attempted assassination (TIME, Aug. 24) of Premier General Hideki Tojo and onetime (1936-37) Premier Koki Hirota, a leader of the sinister militaristic Black Dragon Society. Ken Inukai was also charged with aiding Eurldan, a Korean terrorist group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Ki's Son Ken | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Last week an eye-catching open letter to President Roosevelt was written by Kilsoo K. Haan, U.S. agent of the Korean National Front Federation, who last October warned the U.S. State Department that Japan would attack the U.S. either in December or February. Mr. Haan, whose prophecies have since varied from the uncanny to the untrue (TIME, Aug. 24), said his underground sources had informed him that the Tojo Cabinet had steadily refused Germany's pleas for a Siberian invasion, even after the Nazis reached Stalingrad's gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Logic & Chance | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...Kilsoo K. Haan, U.S. representative of both the admittedly revolutionary Korean National Front Federation and the Sino-Korean Peoples' League, is Korea's most vocal Washington spokesman. He is short and 42; he wears rimless spectacles and is given to loud, figured ties. He is often heard, seldom heeded. But last week Kilsoo Haan came into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Straight to the Armpit | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...shot full of holes by Japanese police, who in the process brought down the Japanese ace, Major Yuzo Fujita, and two Japanese photographers. Tokyo police succeeded in rounding up go-odd members of a Korean terrorist group that has been operating in Yokohama, Tokyo and Osaka, but, said Kilsoo Haan, "their number is legion, and they will continue to operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Straight to the Armpit | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Although his scoop had yet to be confirmed, Kilsoo Haan was serenely confident that it would be. As evidence of its plausibility, he drew up a list of Korean acts of terrorism. The list was more notable for length than for accuracy. Most impressive of the checkable acts was the 1932 bombing of a reviewing stand in Shanghai after a parade in honor of Japan's Emperor: General Yoshinori Shirakawa lost his life, Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu his leg and Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura his right eye. Author of that bombing was one In Hokichi. As for most other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Straight to the Armpit | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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