Word: koje
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese anti-Communists poured across the line. They broke ranks to embrace the welcomers. They passed out mimeographed pamphlets thanking "Dear U.N. honorable fighters" for not letting them go back to Communism. One gaunt P.W. hailed an Irish Franciscan friar he had known in the camps of Koje Island. "That was Kuo Shu-han," the priest said. "Among the men he is a hero. He went into a 1,500-man compound dominated by Communists, and brought out 300 anti-Communists." A middle-aged P.W. thanked a young lieutenant, then broke down. "One thousand days behind the wire," he sobbed...
...respected "champions of the masses." Lee Sung Yup, now accused as ringleader, was North Korea's Justice Minister and mayor of Seoul during the 1950 Communist occupation. Pae Choi, an officer trained in the Soviet army, supervised the Reds' "guerrilla guidance bureau," and helped plan the Koje prisoners' riots. Cho Yun Nyong was Pyongyang's deputy Propaganda Minister. Im Hwa directed the Korea-Soviet Cultural Society. Last week, in North Korea's first major purge trials, these and six others drew the death penalty. Two other "plotters" got off with long prison terms...
More than a year after the Communists set off their costly and humiliating prison-camp riots on Koje Island, the U.N. Command issued a thoroughgoing report on the subject which in effect conceded that the Communists were even cleverer than they had been given credit for. In a 44-page intelligence summary, General Mark Clark's headquarters last week officially acknowledged what has long been suspected: the North Korean regime had sent agents into U.N. prison camps to keep control over the prisoners and to create incidents calculated to embarrass...
...Agents were told to establish "cell committees" in each camp, to organize strikes, protests and demonstrations (which led, in many cases, to bloodshed and death for hundreds of prisoners). The boss at Koje was Pak Sang Hyon, one of the original 36 "Soviet Koreans" trained in Russia. Under an assumed name, as a simple private, he controlled all compounds...
Four months after the bloody prisoner of war riots on Koje Island last February, many of the worst North Korean rioters, diehard Communists all, were moved by General "Bull" Boatner to the prisoner compounds on neighboring Pongam Island. There was an ominous hint of trouble to come on Pongam recently when the P.W. command uncovered Communist plans for a mass escape attempt. Last week trouble materialized with a roar in six compounds of Pongam's enclosure No. 2, where 3,600 of the camp's 9,000 prisoners are confined...