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CIS Microfiche Library 1970-2002 (CIS Asia Pacific Collection)
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
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