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...hermit kingdom," as it was called by 19th century missionaries, is becoming a viable, if somewhat fragile, democracy and is reaching out toward the world with more self-assurance than it has ever known. To South Viet Nam it has 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...
...Seoul last week bounced retired U.S. General James A. Van Fleet, 69, breaking diplomatic china with every step. Van Fleet, who was U.N. commander during the heaviest fighting of the Korean war, is a bit of a hero to every South Korean, and often called "the father of the ROK army." Invited to Korea by the junta, Van Fleet briskly put his seal of approval on the generals' coup d'etat against democratically elected Premier John Chang. "The finest thing that has happened to Korea in a thousand years," declared Van Fleet...
...strong-arm methods, he was undeterred. Van Fleet criticized the U.S.'s former U.N. commander, Carter B. Magruder, who on the day of the coup ordered top South Korean officers to remain loyal to John Chang's civilian government. "General Magruder acted illegally," declared Van Fleet. "Those ROK generals who refused to go along with the coup should have disobeyed his order." In fact. Van Fleet suggested, the Koreans were not yet ready for democracy. Said he: "It's all right to talk about representative government, but except in great countries like the U.S. and Great Britain...
...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...
...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 reached whereby the junta leaders reaffirmed General Magruder's operational control over most ROK troops, leaving them with control of several units that they needed to keep themselves in power...