Word: reischauer
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Jerome A. Cohen, director of Asian Legal Studies and professor of Law, and Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, are both categorized in the document as "class A" enemies, meaning they were to be denied entry into South Korea and had no "chance of repentence," according to the Phoenix article...
...Reischauer said yesterday he heard about the enemies list a few months ago, but added he has been invited by the Korean government to attend meetings in South Korea several times since 1974 and did not think the Park regime would deny him an entrance visa...
...Reischauer said he had declined invitations to travel to Korea since 1973, the last time he went there, because he was sure the meaning of his presence there would be manipulated...
...list is a list of people the government feels are hostile towards it and I'm sure that is all it mean," Reischauer said...
Thus, there should be little doubt about South Korea's self-sufficiency in protecting itself from communism. In fact, as Reischauer points out, what if the South were to take over the North, a possibility which does not seem likely in the near future, but is definitely a possibility since the South does not enjoy existing with North Korea on its border. What kind of a position would the United States be in if it had ground troops in South Korea were such a war to begin...