Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ahead & Sign." After 17 arduous days in Korea and 14 meetings with President Rhee, Robertson met reporters on the clipped green lawn of the U.S. embassy in Seoul, poured himself a stiff drink of Scotch and parried questions...
...Refuse to abide by the truce, and attack the Communists. Clark is already considering a redeployment of front-line units so that the eastern two-thirds of the line will be solidly held by ROKs, the western one-third-guarding the approaches to Seoul-by non-Koreans. Without U.N. air support, ammunition, fuel and tactical advice, the ROKs would have little sustained offensive strength. Their only hope is that the U.N. forces would sooner or later have to get involved in the battle too, if only to preserve their own flanks...
Rhee was not finished with Chough, however. Within a few hours, ROK M.P.s, under the command of Rhee's provost marshal, bundled Chough from the hospital to a jail cell in Seoul. Official reason: "He indiscriminately misled the public by words and deeds, resulting in a very, very difficult situation . . . Because of his disturbance of public sentiments . . . public antagonism became so serious he needed protection." Actually, in a land where Syngman Rhee controls not only the police but the press, only a tiny fraction of South Koreans knew of Chough's audacious stand...
...trapped between an enemy who was willing to settle and a principal ally who saw the settlement as ruinous. At Panmunjom, the Communists were presumably all set to sign an armistice. But in Seoul, stubborn old Syngman Rhee postponed a cease-fire indefinitely by setting free 27,000 North Korean war prisoners that the U.N. had promised to turn over to a neutral commission (see below). By his act, Syngman Rhee all but solved the problem of forced repatriation so far as North Koreans were concerned. He certainly proved that they did not want to go back. But he also...
...questions. Rhee vowing not to settle for anything short of a unified Korea, could use his prodigious political and police power to upset any armistice, even if the ROK army should obey the U.N. instead of its President-which last week seemed entirely unlikely. Said a U.S. official in Seoul last week: "Rhee is a radical revolutionary. His actions prove that we just can't try to predict what he is going to do in terms of what is sensible. He has proved that he is capable of going to any end to get what he wants...