Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Addressing Filipino lawmakers later in the week, MacArthur indicated that he was still of the same mind. The failure of the United Nations forces to win the Korean war was "a major disaster for the free world," he said. "With victory within our grasp and without the use of the atom bomb, which we needed no more then than against Japan, we failed to see it through. Had we done so, we would have destroyed Red China's capability of waging modern war for generations to come...
...Enigma. At 44, tough, hawk-faced little General Pak is an enigma, little known either to South Koreans or to the U.S. officers who, through the U.N. Korea Command, train, equip and largely control the tough, 600,000-man ROK army. A career officer who was trained in Japanese military schools, Pak was court-martialed for Communist activities as a South Korean officer in 1948, escaped with his life to become an anti-Communist-and the ROK army's chief of operations. He speaks little English, never made the study tour of U.S. military camps that has been...
...Democratic Party Cabinet ministers who were in his Cabinet before the May 16 coup, labeling them "proCommunist plotters." Although John Chang is a Catholic and a well-known antiCommunist, Pak accused him of "helping antistate, pro-Communist activity" by contributing the sum of $770 to a South Korean relief society...
...General Chang Do Yung's responsibilities were pared, though he remained Prime Minister and chairman of the 32-man Supreme Council. Major General Pak Chung Hi, believed by some to have masterminded the coup, was upped to chairman of the council's inner Standing Committee. Still other Korean observers are convinced that the real power is increasingly in the hands of nine young colonels on the council...
...reluctantly was facing up to the new facts of Korean life. U.S. General Carter Magruder last week took U.S. troops in Korea off "green alert," announced he would cooperate with the new regime. President Kennedy formally recognized the new government's existence in a terse two-sentence telegram to "Prime Minister" Chang thanking the general for a birthday message-but making no mention of the invitation to visit the U.S. that Chang hankers...