Eye on Korea_ An Insider Account of Korean-American Relations
• thority of an officer of my rank and position. Although I had no desire to continue such a conversation, I did ...
• CHAPTER 8 Prelude to Kwangju B y early things had begun to settle down to the extent that we could ...
• Once I gave a briefing to his staff officers regarding China, where I had trav- eled the year before. In those ...
• previously been made by Ambassador Gleysteen and others such as Brewster. These included the importance ...
• an obligation to the security of South Korea and should have been able to put their personal differences aside ...
• With Chun in control of the military and the government of Choi Kyu Ha weak and ineffective, only the Ko ...
• Gleysteen Meets with Chun Again By early May, , demonstrations had grown both in number of partici- pants ...
• manner. At the end of the day, the ambassador was reasonably upbeat, but I think this was a misunderstan ...
• as an ideal form of government. He mentioned the long friendship and close relationship between the Korean and ...
• Washington needed the information and analysis immediately, so I sent it on my own authority. The report ...
• threat. For the first time, Wickham stated his frank opinion that Chun in- tended to use these arguments as a ...
• Indeed, for a period of time on May –, it appeared that reason might prevail. There were no demonstr ...
• CHAPTER 9 Kwangju and Its Aftermath T he first hard evidence that the authorities would return to full martia ...
• politicians, but by now he was merely following instructions; the ambassa- dor had no realistic ...
• special warfare troops were being blamed. The same morning U.S. Forces Korea received a similar call from the ...
• Activities in Washington Washington was slow to respond to events in Kwangju. Part of the prob- ...
• The 20th Division Controversy Most of the civilian casualties at Kwangju occurred at the hands of the Special ...
• every detail concerning the th Division’s movements and operational plans. They went so far as ...
• cial capitol if he would consent to act as a negotiator between them and the martial-law authorities. This wa ...
• There had been occasional differences of opinion as to how to deal with the new group of self-ap ...
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