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...sent 10,000 engineers and 46,000 battle-shrewd "ROK" (Republic of Korea) troops. Through the Asian Pacific Council, it plays a leading role in promoting regional cooperation. Next week President Park will receive a U.S. economic mission, and South Korea's Prime Minister II Kwon Chung will be in Washington discussing Korean and Viet Nam development with President Johnson. Chung will ask for U.S. financial aid to enlarge Korea's engineering corps in South Viet Nam to as many as 50,000 men, have them undertake an intensive program of building schools, bridges and roads within Korea...
...Chung Kyong Gin, 32, swiftly sent two squads to plug the holes in the wire, then set his men loose to kill the Reds trapped inside the perimeter. It was knife to knife and hand to hand-and in that sort of fighting the Koreans, with their deadly tae kwon do (a form of karate), are unbeatable. When the action stopped shortly after dawn, 104 enemy bodies lay within the wire, many of them eviscerated or brained. All told, 253 Reds were killed in the clash, while the Koreans lost only 15 dead and 30 wounded. Captain Chung, recommended...
...National Assembly swirled around a smuggling scandal concerning some 92 tons of saccharin that had been illegally imported from Japan by an arm of the multimillion-dollar Samsung business combine. Charges of government involvement flew from the backbenches; indignant silence wreathed the Cabinet ministers of Premier II Kwon Chung. Then tall, tough Kim Do Han, 49, an independent Assemblyman from Seoul with a reputation as a street brawler, took the rostrum to question the Cabinet. With him he carried a three-gallon can marked "saccharin...
...special liaison group have lived and worked daily with the Korean Tigers [July 22] since their arrival in Viet Nam. They rank professionally with any fighting unit we've known. We find them "brutally efficient," but nowhere have we seen any grave sitting, tae kwon do cheekbone splitting, or mutilation by skinning. Had the Tigers done these things, 695 Viet Cong would never have surrendered...
...just past the ear from behind while they are sitting on the edge of an open grave, or by a swift, cheekbone-shattering flick of a Korean's bare hand. (Every Korean soldier from Commanding General Chae Myung Shin on down practices for 30 minutes each day tae kwon do, the Korean version of karate.) Once, when the mutilated body of a Korean soldier was found in a Viet Cong-sympathizing village, the Koreans tracked down a Viet Cong, skinned him and hung him up in the village. Not surprisingly, captured Viet Cong orders now stipulate that contact with...