[ks-open] RE: US involvement in the assassination of kim ku???

[Kaliher, Kenneth L.]

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   Perhaps it is a bit early to conclude that what has been published so far
shows, as the posting below asserts, "that the US military, during the
american occupation [sic], helped in the assasination kim ku."  (Kim's
assassination came, of course, more than 10 months after Syngman Rhee's
regime replaced the U.S. military government in South Korea.)
   Not even the Hankyoreh, hardly sympathetic to the U.S., has yet accused
the U.S. of direct complicity in Kim's assassination.  An editorial on page
4 of that same (Sept. 5) issue last week only went so far as the following
statement:  "The U.S. documents increase our suspicion that the U.S. was
involved in one way or another."  The next paragraph candidly notes of the
U.S.documents involved, "It is hard to discern what is true and what is
false."
   That the assassin, An Tu-hui, was apparently an informant and an agent of
the U.S. Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC), and a member of a far-right group
(Paeguisa) led by another Korean linked to the CIC, is good reason to heed
the Hankyoreh editorial's suggestion that "The documents need to be sifted
through for truth."  Other sources should obviously be pursued as well.  In
time, it may become clear that the U.S. was directly involved in Kim's
assassination (it would certainly not be the only such case), but it
certainly has not been made clear so far. 
   There are already enough shoddy journalists, political partisans and
other axe-grinders leaping past the facts at hand to make ill-supported
assertions.  Surely the conscientious scholars and other serious students of
Korea supporting this list should not be among them.

Ken Kaliher
Seoul

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Dennis Hart [mailto:dhart@stark.kent.edu]
Sent:	Wednesday, September 05, 2001 8:30 PM
To:	ks-open@iic.edu
Subject:	US involvement in the assassination of kim ku....

hello,

just in case someone else is interested, the hankyore just ran an article
showing that the US military, during the american occupation, helped in the
assasination kim ku. why am i not surprised?
for more, go to...
http://www.hani.co.kr/section-005000000/2001/09/005000000200109040050015.htm
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Dennis Hart
Assistant Professor
Political Science Department
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio 44240
dhart@stark.kent.edu
www.stark.kent.edu/~dhart