Word: pak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chang, civilian democracy would return, though he was naming no dates. "We have not killed anyone, and no one will be killed without reason. We have a love of freedom. A patriotic cause moved our soldiers. This should be properly understood." But neither Chang nor tough little Major General Pak Chung-Hi, whom many consider the real power behind the junta, was willing to put the 7,000 Korean troops used in the revolt back under the authority of the United Nations Korea commander, the U.S.'s Carter B. Magruder. Only after hours of patient negotiation was a compromise...
Premier's Problems. Was General Chang the new boss? The man who planned the coup was not Chang but his powerful colleague on the junta, Major General Pak Chung Hi, 44. Reportedly, Pak's representatives went to Chang, told him that if he did not come to lead the coup, "we will have to kill you." Even as the uprising got under way, General Chang rushed off to see Magruder; for most of the first day, it was not certain whether Chang would lead the revolt or quell...
Major General Pak was once an avowed Communist who helped organize an army revolt in 1948; he was sentenced to death by Syngman Rhee's officers but was released after reportedly undergoing a conversion and informing on the entire Communist network. Now vocally and violently antiCommunist, he rose to be the army's chief of operations. Disgusted with the corruption of Rhee's regime, General Pak is said to have planned a revolt early last year, but the student mobs that ousted Rhee beat...
...first, Pak hoped that Premier John Chang, victor in South Korea's first honest elections, would sweep out the graft and inefficiency and rebuild the creaking Korean economy. Instead, corruption continued, and Premier Chang's bold economic plans made little progress. Heedless of the damage they were doing to South Korea's frail democracy, politicians selfishly fought for personal gain. Seoul's irresponsible newspapers exulted in their new freedom by jabbing at Premier Chang on every issue. President Posun Yun, supposedly a figurehead outside the political maelstrom, sniped openly at the struggling Premier...
...matters worse, Premier Chang forced some prominent ROK officers into early retirement. But, lacking the crafty sophistication of Syngman Rhee, who used to reshuffle his officer corps with drastic regularity to make plots difficult, Chang left too many of his military opponents in their old jobs. When Plotter General Pak set his military revolt in motion last week, only 3,600 soldiers were needed to bring the government down and send Premier Chang into hiding...