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...Yung, front man for the new regime. In came Major General Pak Chung Hi, Chang's former "deputy" and the real strongman behind the May coup...
...revolutionary regime have been to a degree established," the military Premier announced. "I am voluntarily resigning, since I realize the urgent need of a more aggressive leader who will be able to carry out stronger policies." In fact, his retirement had been hastened by a truckload of Pak's troops, who swooped onto General Chang's home in the predawn hours and hustled the startled victim off to Seoul's capitol building. Getting the point, General Chang called an emergency cabinet meeting and made his announcement. Then, with three other members of the junta, the hapless general...
...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...
Facts of Life. Who was boss within the junta was still anybody's guess. Last week Lieut. 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...
...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...