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...lifted his ban on civilian political activity last January, the heat has been on South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee. Anger over the strong-arm tactics of the feared Central Intelligence Agency forced Park to sack his top hatchet man (and nephew by marriage), C.I.A. Boss Kim Chong Pil. Investigations revealed wholesale corruption within South Korea's C.I.A., and charges were leveled that Park had done nothing to relieve South Korea's economic chaos. Threatened with civil war by disaffected members of his own military junta, Park reluctantly bowed out of the forthcoming civilian presidential race...
...civilian political rule (TIME, Dec. 28), at least in name. In fact, junta members planned merely to swap their khaki for mufti and continue to run the country; Park himself was the leading candidate for the presidency. This pleasant prospect was shattered last January when Brigadier General Kim Chong Pil, husband of Park's niece and boss of the dreaded Central Intelligence Agency, quit the C.I.A. in order to grab control of the regime's civilian political organization, the Democratic-Republican Party. With Park's tacit approval, Kim, whose 30,000 snoopers had kept tabs on anything...
Behind Park will be Colonel Kim Chong Pil, head of the powerful Central Intelligence Agency, the quiet Korean who is even more powerful than Park. Together, the two have gagged the newspapers, and got rid of thousands of political enemies by forbidding them to participate in public life. Yet of 40,000 political prisoners locked up in the first months of the military coup, a mere 700 remain in jail...
...gangs, and ten ringleaders went on trial for their lives. Last week, in Seoul's Sodaemun prison, the death sentence against a smuggler was carried out for the first time: the hangman's noose was lowered over South Korea's most wanted criminal, surly, burly Han Pil Kook...
...firm hand is clearly needed. But even the army, which has taken charge of the country,, is divided by officers' cliques, formed according to military academy classes, regional derivation and family ties. The powerful South Korean Central Intelligence Agency (secret police) headed by lean, tough Colonel Kim Chong Pil, 35, who is married to General Park's niece, wields almost limitless authority, can toss almost anyone in jail for almost anything...