MONTHLY REPORT--SEOUL BUREAU--APRIL 1982

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
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• Publication Date: May 10, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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10 May 1982
MSK-2009
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
THROUGH Chief, Operations Group
SUBJECT Monthly Report--Seoul Bureau--April 1982
The bureau experienced an extremely hectic month. Activity
involving the Embassy took up a great deal of the time of bureau
personnel during a period in which many important events were
occurring in the DPRK.
The biggest occasion in Seoul during the month was the official
visit paid to the Republic of Korea by U.S. Vice President George
Bush. The Vice President spent three days in Seoul as part of his
tour of East Asia. During his visit, Vice President Bush addressed
all Embassy personnel. FBIS Seoul Bureau staff and nonstaff personnel
and some dependents of bureau staffers attended the meeting.
Although not a great deal of material concerning the Vice
President's visit was monitored, the occasion understandedly disrupted
routine operations for a few days. The acting bureau chief was embassy
duty officer during the time Vice President Bush was in Seoul and spent
much additional time and effort in taking care of embassy matters.
While the Vice President was in the country, an incident took
place in the town of Uiryong which brought about a shakeup in national,
city and provincial governments. A village policeman, after a drinking
bout following a fight with his common law wife, went berserk. He
stole a rifle, ammunition and grenades from the police station and
began shooting anyone he could find. The death toll was 56 with another
37 wounded. The massacre resulted in the resignation of the ROK home
minister, the Seoul mayor, the police chief and several provincial
officials.
Shortly before Vice President Bush was scheduled to arrive in Korea,
a very serious incident took place in the DMZ, the worst such incident
since October. Apparently four defectors from North Korea tried to
cross the border. They were shot and dragged back, through the DMZ, by
soldiers from the north. The ROK forces side returned fire. The ex-
change continued throughout the night.
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In the north, April saw the 5th Supreme People's Assembly
session, the 70th birthday of Kim 1l-song and the anniversary
of the Korean People's Army. The SPA session created a stir when
it failed to name Kim Chong-il to a major post in the government.
Kim Chong-il's status as successor to Kim Il-song is now somewhat
unclear.
A. Monitorial/Editorial
1. The various events in the area during the month resulted
in increased output for bureau staffers. The Korean unit worked
long and hard to process material in a timely fashion.
2. At the special request of DCM Paul Cleveland for an "off
the to of your head" rundown on what was happening in the DPRK,
edito repared a report interpreting events during April. STAT
The report was very favorably received.
B. Lateral Services
1. Mr. Jimmy Lee, special assistant to the senior member
of the U.N. Military Armistice Commission Secretariat, was provided
with a list of the full membership of the DPRK Supreme People's
Assembly upon receipt from FBIS Headquarters.
2. Visitors from the C-2 Psyops, at the bureau to view
Pyongyang television coverage of Kim I1-song's birthday, were
greatly impressed. They asked to be added to the bureau's video
selection lists.
A. Personnel
1. Korean monitor
recuperation from a back in
over a month.
returned to work following
was absent from work for
2. Korean Monitor was hospitalized
during the month because of a perforated ulcer. He is now recovering.
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was in Korea on R & R from Okinawa Bureau.
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Chief, Seoul Bureau, FBIS
3. Korean monitor (received consulate a proval
to obtain a visa to immigrate to the United States. plans
on departing Korea in July. Efforts to recruit a replacement are
being made.
4. I (reported for duty as a Chinese
monitor trainee. She will be guided in her training by editor
attended a briefing session with a high-
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level) (specialist. The visit was arranged by Embassy
Political Officer Franz Misch.
2. Lieutenant Colonel Birchfield, Lieutenant Colonel Henning
and Major Jacobowitz, from C-2 Psyops, visited the bureau to view
video tapes of Pyongyang coverage of Kim I1-song's birthday.
3. USAKCA Commander Col. Patrick Gray and aide Captain Silvester
visited the bureau. They received a briefing on bureau operations and
mission.
4-----,Editoz visited the bureau during the month.
Attachment:
Seoul Bureau Monthly Production Report
cc: Chief, Hong Kong Bureau
Chief, Okinawa Bureau
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SEOUL BUREAU PRODUCTION REPORT FOR _ pril, 1gE2 _
I.. TOTALS FROM ALL SOURCES :
TOTAL PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH: 515,680
TOTAL NON-PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH: 110,250
TOTAL NUMBER OF PUBLISHABLE ITEMS FILED DURING MONTH: 1,366
BROAD- PRESS PUBLI-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
II. INPUT OF REGULAR COVERAGE:
(minutes or issues per week)
III. OUTPUT FROM ALL SOURCES:
(publishable words per month)
CHINA (PRC)
Beijing in
Korean to Korea
Changchun Jilin Provincial Service in
' Mandarin
Harbin Heilongjiang Provincial Service in
Mandarin
Hohhot Nei Monggol Regional Service in
Mandarin
Jinan Shandong Provincial Service in
Mandarin
Lanzhou Gansu Provincial Service in
Mandarin
Shenyang Liaoning Provincial Service in
Mandarin
Tianjin City Service in
Mandarin
Xining Qinghai. Provincial Service in
Mandarin
CLANDESTINE
(Clandestine) Voice Of The Revolutionary
Party For Reunification in
Korean to South Korea
13,755 6,810 48
min min issues
1,270
7,640
10,890
9,930
6,940
3,920
7,570
.4:,050
12,830
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BROAD- PRESS PUBLI-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
KOREA. (NORTH)
Pyongyang Domestic Service in
Korean
Pyongyang KCNA in
English
KOREA (SOUTH)
Seoul. Domestic Service in
Korean
Seoul YONHAP in
English
Seoul CHOSON ILBO in
Korean
Seoul CHUNGANG ILBO in
Korean
Seoul HANGUK ILBO in
Korean
Seoul KYONGHYANG SINMUN in
Korean
Seoul SEOUL SINMUN in
Korean
Seoul THE KOREA HERALD in
English
Seoul THE KOREA TIMES in
English
Seoul TONG-A ILBO in
Korean
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Moscow in
Korean to Korea
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138,550
238,220
3,340
15,860
3,400
850
60
1,380
2,630
21 ,160
20,390
3,000
1,010