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...unification the U.N., in fact, did not see eye to eye with Korea's President Syngman Rhee. And Koreans differed angrily among themselves. Despite a U.N. order that Korea above the 38th parallel did not come under the Rhee government, Seoul still claimed jurisdiction, demanded elections north of the parallel...
Korea's legislators showed their hostility to Rhee by demanding the resignation of the pro-Rhee cabinet on the ground that it was responsible for the war. Twice the Assembly refused to ratify Rhee's choice for Prime Minister, amiable George Paik, a Protestant mission college president who had been Education Minister before the war. The resentment against Paik and his sponsor stemmed partly from the fact that both had rated an airlift escape from Seoul last June, while many ordinary Assemblymen had to stay behind and hide...
...Wonsan-Majon road, 50 miles behind the front, "Ambush Alley," and marine planes were diverted from front-line missions to protect supply convoys. The guerrillas burned the town of Kapyong and seized and terrorized Chunchon. Near Seoul they ambushed a trainload of Turkish troops, killing one, wounding two. Syngman Rhee's Minister of Home Affairs averred that no less than 40,000 guerrillas were operating below the 38th parallel...
Occupied Areas. Rhee and other Republican officials reacted angrily. Said Rhee: "The plan is impossible for the Korean people to accept." Last week, ignoring the U.N. resolution, Rhee sent to the occupied areas more than 100, Republican administrators, including governors for the five North Korean provinces...
...Seoul, newsmen asked Rhee whether General MacArthur had tacitly agreed to the Republic's attempt to take power in North Korea. Said Rhee, with the aplomb of a veteran political poker player: "If he does not, he will let us know...