Word: koreanizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Papers throughout the U.S. featured his "secret report" that a young Korean patriot had shot and slightly wounded Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo on June 17. The would-be assassin's second shot went wild, but seriously wounded onetime Premier Koki Hirota. As Tojo was carried to the hospital with a wound "under the left armpit," the patriot, whose name was Park Soowon, was 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...
...Korea is the Austria of Asia: it was the first country overrun and exploited by the Asiatic aggressor. In other ways the parallel fails. The Japs are far more afraid of Korea than the Nazis are of Austria. To the Japanese, the Koreans are "inscrutable," as the Japanese themselves are to westerners. Ever since Japan took Korea in 1904, its Korean policy has wavered between uneasy placating and frantic terrorism. Grapevine news reaching the Korean National Front Federation in the U.S. last week showed quite clearly that Japan, however busy it might be elsewhere, could not turn its back...
...Quelpart Island, off the Korean peninsula's southern tip, the Japs had an air base. In March-according to last week's reports-Korean workers suddenly attacked the base, set fire to four underground hangars, destroyed two big fuel tanks and 69 airplanes, killed 142 of the Jap crew and wounded or scorched another 200. Trembling with rage and fright, the surviving Japanese butchered every Korean on the island, some...
This was not an isolated incident. It followed reports of other Korean uprisings-power plants dynamited, warehouses, mills, bridges, ammunition supplies, fishing boats and tankers destroyed or damaged, police stations overwhelmed, Japanese houses burned. The rumble of some of these doings reached the Chinese mainland. The Japs explained that it was just a big earthquake. Seismologists in the U.S. found nothing to confirm the claim...