CIS NO: 75-H381-26
 TITLE: Human Rights in South Korea: Implications for U.S. Policy.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Affairs. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: vii+283 p.
 DATE: July 30, Aug. 5, Dec. 20, 1974
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 93-2              SUDOC: Y4.F67/1:H88/6
 ITEM NO: 1017
 LC CARD NO: 75-601487               MC ENTRY NO: 05157(75)

 Hearings before the Subcom on Asian and Pacific Affairs and Subcom on
 International Organizations and Movements to consider implications for U.S.
 policy of the deteriorating human rights situation in South Korea.
   Hearings focus on increasing political repression subsequent to
 revocation of democratic freedoms under 1972 Yushin constitution, and on
 recent trials before military tribunals of students, intellectuals, and
 labor leaders for violation of President Park Chung Hee's emergency decrees.
   Includes statements by subcom members (p. 1-6, 71-73) and submitted
 statement from Embassy of Korea (p. 6-9).
   Includes submitted statements (p. 153-170). Appendices (p. 171-283)
 contain correspondence, State Dept replies to subcom questions, articles,
 accounts of Korean repression, and:
 a. Goldich, Robert L. (CRS analyst), Chronology of Korean-American
     Relations, 1834-1974 (p. 171-179).
 b. National Council of Churches of Christ, Political Arrests: Republic of
     Korea (p. 180-189).
 c. Emergency Decrees of Republic of Korea, 1974, texts (p. 196-198).
 d. National Council of Churches of Christ, human rights policy statements
     (p. 207-215).
 e. Ogle, George E. (Rev.) documentation pertaining to alleged Korean CIA
     fabrication of espionage charges against critics of Park regime (p.
     224-228).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in South Korea
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON ASIAN AND PACIFIC
     AFFAIRS. HOUSE; SUBCOM ON INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND MOVEMENTS.
     HOUSE; FOREIGN.RELATIONS; CIVIL LIBERTIES; MILITARY.ASSISTANCE
     (Korean human rights deprivation, policy implications); KOREA; PARK
     CHUNG HEE

 75-H381-26 TESTIMONY NO: 1         July 30, 1974 p. 9-28
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     HUMMEL, ARTHUR W., JR. (Act Asst Sec of State for East Asian and
        Pacific Aff)
     ABRAMOWITZ, MORTON I. (Dep Asst Sec of Def for East Asian and Pacific
        Aff, Bur of Intl Security Aff)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Historical perspective on recent removal of
     human rights in Korea; problem of substantiating reports on rights
     deprivation and torture; rationale for continuing military and economic
     aid; extent of U.S. diplomatic efforts to end repression.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in South Korea
 DESCRIPTORS: DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE; DEPARTMENT.OF.DEFENSE

 75-H381-26 TESTIMONY NO: 2         July 30, 1974 p. 28-50
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     BUTLER, WILLIAM J. (atty, observer for Amnesty Intl; former US rep to
        UN Intl Commission of Jurists; counsel, Intl League for the Rights of
        Man)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Conclusions based on facts, conversations, and
     documents pertaining to trial of 54 Koreans arrested under emergency
     regulations; judgment on reasons for emergency decrees, frequency of
     torture, and types of persons subjected to persecution; apparent absence
     of external security threats justifying repression; recommended aid
     withdrawal pending prohibition of torture and amnesty for persons
     convicted under emergency decrees. (For further discussion, see
     H381-26.3.)
 INSERTION: Completed trials, sentences, and pending trials, list (p.
     48-50).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in South Korea
 DESCRIPTORS: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

 75-H381-26 TESTIMONY NO: 3         July 30, 1974 p. 50-69
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     REISCHAUER, EDWIN O. (prof, Harvard Univ; former US ambassador to
        Japan)
 STATEMENT: Compelling reasons for U.S. disassociation from Park regime.
     (p. 50-54)
 DISCUSSION: (Also covers testimony under H381-26.2.) Advocacy of reduced
     military and economic aid; delineation of suggested conditions for
     continued assistance; danger to U.S. interests of growing Korean
     alienation from their government. (p. 54-69)
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in South Korea

 75-H381-26 TESTIMONY NO: 4         Aug. 5, 1974 p. 74-85
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     MEEDS, LLOYD ((Rep, D-Wash); also on behalf of)
     UDALL, MORRIS K. (Rep, D-Ariz)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Impressions from personal visit of intensifying
     Korean repression and identification of U.S. with Park regime; desire
     for reduced military aid and possibly disassociation.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in South Korea

 75-H381-26 TESTIMONY NO: 5         Aug. 5, 1974 p. 85-128
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     HENDERSON, GREGORY (assoc prof, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
        Tufts Univ)
     COOLIDGE, T. JEFFERSON, JR. (chm, Bay Orient Holding Corp)
     MCFADDEN, MICHAEL (Rev.) (member, St Columban's Foreign Mission Soc,
        Diocese of Wonju, South Korea)
     O'LEARY, WILLIAM O. (Rev.) (asst gen, Maryknoll Fathers, NY; former
        missionary in Korea)
     MOFFETT, EDWARD J. (Rev.) (Catholic Leprosy Service, Seoul, Korea)
     CARY, W. STERLING (Rev.) (pres, Natl Council of Churches)
     BILLINGS, PEGGY (asst gen sec of women's div, Bd of Global Ministries
        of the United Methodist Church)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Personal experiences of current Korean
     repression; traditional background of Korean demonstrations; appeal for
     reduced or curtailed military aid pending evidence of democratic reform
     and release of political prisoners; dangers of aid reductions in
     possibly stimulating North Korean miscalculations and invasion
     (Coolidge, Moffett).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in South Korea
 DESCRIPTORS: ST. COLUMBAN'S FOREIGN MISSION SOCIETY; NATIONAL COUNCIL OF
     CHURCHES OF CHRIST; BAY ORIENT HOLDING CORP.; MARYKNOLL FATHERS;
     CATHOLIC LEPROSY SERVICE, SEOUL, KOREA; UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

 75-H381-26 TESTIMONY NO: 6         Dec. 20, 1974 p. 131-151
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     OGLE, GEORGE E. (Rev.) (Bd of Missions of United Methodist Church;
        missionary to South Korea)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Background and manner of expulsion from Korea
     for speeches advocating human rights and for opposing Yushin system and
     Korean CIA; suppression of Korean labor unions since 1970; desired U.S.
     support for Korean people.
 INSERTION: "The Case of the Rev. George Ewing Ogle," Embassy of Korea
     statement, Dec. 14, 1974 (p. 138-139).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Human rights in South Korea
 DESCRIPTORS: UNITED METHODIST CHURCH