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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000301320001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 30, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 14, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2014/01/30: CIA-RDP73-00475R000301320001-8
THE ECONOMIST MAY 14, 1964
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A iiriispOndtrit' iii !Seoul etiAbled-uS to 'it?) inti/South Kote.a'd !Continuing !
. political diicdsscdfri Foi.zidN'REPORii on April c3Othi I Sinte:theit thel internal
feuding in the Democratic Republican partythat'werep.ortedhasiirokenlintO,the open
:with the, replacement, of. the then prim minister, .Mr..1 Choi Du Sun; hy the former
foreign*Minisier, 'Ocnerl' Chung 11 'Kwon, id the irem'oV'al`a-nwise-of"the ?Firgely
,independent,1pon7party, cabinet. .The .changp, follo-,wed .dern194p. , for?fmtec-,party
. r.,ghtKol.pf the. cabinet, .and has, sheen sP 46, p.,victoiT for,the pa04717ant;Nr./iKim.
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/ Though Korean,O1lieial.sour,, lvtiggcs4op. of any ioreign. po1cydifft;rriice,
hetWeeti, President I',ark,and?(eneril,Chunif rOtilOtei bf:A,pril .3oti.9 'there' sar
grounds, fo/r: s foreleil .
.polici,it Will be iza.the.,direetioni pfria,rnore.,ciiftiop; .att.,4,0trd tOw?rd JaP00'.th!the
target Of'normalisation elatteins 'remains. 'ft 11; ' ..s?vs`taind ? tilie!ititerhai
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power struggle is in any way over.
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,,cOrd,ing.,.,to,,pur,,c9rrespohdeht,, the; key, to, pie situatiop s,tic ,eiperifFfic q??!,
new ':nationalist movement, the ,/cookook, Al* .0Aognstpl (national salvation 'united,
. front) known in abhreviatiOn is the Kooyunsun.. it is' sponsored by the gorth It ore,. an,,t'i
and partly based among Korean exiles in Japan, but has growing supportaii the ?.1.
government knows+-itt South Korea.i..i...1.?h.!,1.1., ?.?????ii?;(11;;1?.110uluo; 4,11.-.1u'tig
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Kooyup.suh, ),*s.s: its. 4ppeal, on .national unity. igampt. a renewal' of Japanesel
. domination. through the Medium of the. American ,forees. Its propaganda is. e.eutioius:: '
it dp.c.s not :den:104 .a...pohuilitmeht: to socialism or hostility to,Japai, siying it youi.cfr
welcome Japanese; or, apy, other, investment on equitable terms..,thMigh;!t particularly
. hails . the ;Aslorth .KOreatiofferi of?assist4nce,i made, l'on ?In; ;the Jong
term, its ?leaders;?helieve, :the ,Americans, ul abandon . their ,sOpporti: for, President,
?Park's-r4ime or ? any other dented.,tolanti,com,mtml7m,flandOpt for neutlisatiori.
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..as the best Way Out. ? ? ? ? ,;,
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r."...1710-1COqurisun'ss:iminediate aims?interrupting the talks with Japan, splitting;
1 , the-Democratic Republican party, and breaking up the Central Intelligence Agency.ii:1
'havesheen achieved through the student riots. According to our informant: ii
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;., The student' riots ? were . helped on their ?way by ample ' Kooyunsun :. .
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? ' ? finance from its sources outside South Korea, as well as by contributions ? .-.
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,,.... from local black marketeers fearing that " norinalisation " would mean
'Japanese domination . of the black- market. ? ? '., ', ? .? ., ?
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?'. ; 2. :'The self-styled. "non-mainstream." faction of the DRP headed by .the. 1s14.z.;,
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1 . d cp.0 t y speaker of the? national assembly, .Mi?:. Chang Kyung Soon, iii!-..:'-'qc.Y,ii . ,..
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...;::,..,.? ;; ; suspected by its. oppoRcptso, such astyr, Kim, of links with the Kooytinstiti...). '-' -;,;!.'?; ? .
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