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Tbe struggle between tbe group of younger officersMaJ. Cen. Pak Chong-hui and senior officers led by Lt. Oen. Chang To-yong. nominal head of tbe Supreme Council for National Reconstructionppears to be Intensifying. The Inner circle of the junta led by Pak has not yetits control over the military, and there continue to be reports of plots to oust Pak. The Impatient reform-minded Junior officers are eager to oust all senioridentified with the Rhee and Chang Myon governments.
Pak appears to be moving toward ever-Increasing police state controls to assure his position. Security boss Lt. Col. Kim Chong-pil has ordered the armed forces purged of all personnel involved in antlrevo-lutlonary or antl-Pak activities, He reportedly has warned the army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Kim Chong-o, that anywith the purge would cost him his position.
Kim Chong-pil and Pak have been close associates since the Inception of theay coup. Onune, Kim was named director of the newly organized South Korean central agency, which hasfor coordinating the collection of information, military, andof all matters at home and abroad related to national security and criminal activity.
Recently promulgated ex post facto laws are so broadly drawn that almost any person regardedhreat to the Junta could be accused of some act making him liable to the death penaltyong prison term. Retired Lt. Gen. Song Yo-chan, newly appointedminister, has observed that the situation within the Supreme Council and nation can be stabilized only by the emergence of an unchallenged leader.
Meanwhile, publicby the regime to its
Initial pledge to return the government to civilian control are becoming more vague. The appointment of tbe first two civilian cabinet ministersead the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry ofarbinger of an early return
to civilian authority, although additional civilians may be appointed to head other largely economic ministries.
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