합동주간정보분석 제47호

CG USAFIK DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY PRIORITY PRIORITY x AMA, CHINA G-2, FEC FOR INTELLIGENCE DIVISION CMA GENERAL STAFF CMA USA PD WEEKA NUMBER FOUR SEVEN PERIOD ONE FOUR NOVEMBER TO TWO ONE NOVEMBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT PD PART ONE SOUTH KOREA PARA CURRENT INTELLIGENCE CLN PARA ONE PD MILITARY ORGANIZATION LAW PASSED BY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ONE FIVE NOVEMBER PD FOLLOWING DAY DISCUSSION BEGAN ON NATIONAL XXX SECURITY LAW AND FIRST READING WAS COMPLETED BY ONE EIGHT NOVEMBER PARA TWO PD LEE YUNG CHUN CMA PRESENT COMMANDER OF FIRST CONSTABULARY BRIGADE CMA APPOINTED COMMANDING GENERAL OF CONSTABULARY AND CHUNG IL KWAN CMA PRESENT CHIEF OF STAFF CMA TO BE DEPUTY COMMANDER AS WELL AS CHIEF OF STAFF PD GENERAL SOHN HO SAWN WAS ANNOUNCED AS MILITARY ATTACHE TO CHINA PD PAREN BAKER ONE PAREN COMMENT CLN IT IS CONSIDERED THAT REMOVAL OF SOHN HO SAWN WAS RESULT OF RUMORS THAT KIM KOO WAS ATTEMPTING TO ENLIST PERSONAL FOLLOWING WITHIN CONSTABULARY THROUGH GENERAL SOHN HO SAWN CMA HIS DISCIPLE PD PAREN WEEKA FOUR FIVE PAREN PD IT IS ALSO REPORTED THAT FRICTION HAS EXISTED BETWEEN GENERAL SOHN AND PREMIER LEE BUM SUK SINCE THEIR DAYS IN CHINA PARA COLONEL LEE YUNG CHUN CMA FORMER COLONEL WITH THREE ZERO YEARS SERVICE XXX IN JAPANESE ARMY CMA IS RATED BY AMERICAN ADVISORS AS ONE OF BEST BRIGADE COMMANDERS IN CONSTABULARY PARA IT IS CONSIDERED LIKELY THAT GENERAL KIM WHANG IL WILL BE GIVEN DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 1 -[illegible] SECRET POSITION XX IN SECURITY FORCES AT FUTURE DATE PARA THREE PD SON JIN TAI APPOINTED VICE MINISTER OF EDUCATION ONE THREE NOVEMBER PD HE REPLACES HONG CHANG WOOK PAREN WEEKA FOUR ONE PAREN PARA FOUR PD TEMPORARY LAW ON LOCAL ADMINISTRATION WENT INTO EFFECT ONE EIGHT NOVEMBER PD NO DATE SET FOR ELECTION OF MINOR OFFICIALS PD PAREN WEEKA FOUR TWO PAREN PARA MILITARY CLN PARA ONE PD STRENGTH CLN POLICE THREE FOUR ONE ONE ONE ONE PAREN AS OF FIVE OCTOBER PAREN SMCLN CONSTABULARY FOUR SIX TWO FIVE ONE SMCLN COAST GUARD TWO NINE ZERO FOUR PARA COMMENT CLN THESE FIGURES DO NOT REFLECT CASUALTIES AND DESERTIONS DURING RECENT REVOLTS NOR ARRESTS FOR COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES PARA TWO PD THERE WERE TWO PARALLEL VIOLATIONS DURING PERIOD PD BOTH INVOLVED ONLY KOREANS PD NO REPORT OF ANY CASUALTIES XX RECEIVED PARA THREE PD POLICE IN CHOLLA NAMDO HAVE FORMULATED PLANS FOR OPERATIONS IN EVENT OF FUTURE REVOLTS BY CONSTABULARY IN THEIR DISTRICT PD COMMENT CLN THIS PLAN IS SIGNIFICANT IN THAT IT IS FIRST EVIDENCE OF EFFICIENT PRIOR PLANNING BY POLICE PARA FOUR PD ACCORDING TO INCOMPLETE REPORTS CONSTABULARY CASUALTIES FOR PERIOD ONE NINE OCTOBER DASH EIGHT NOVEMBER ARE FIVE TWO KILLED CMA ONE TWO SEVEN WOUNDED CMA TWO SIX THREE MISSING AND THREE NINE ONE WHO JOINED MUTINEERS PARA MOBILIZATION POTENTIAL CLN PARA ONE PD PRICE OF RICE IN SEOUL WAS SEVEN NINE ZERO WON PER SMALL METRIC MAL ON ONE NINE NOVEMBER PARA TWO PD ACCORDING TO CIVIL AFFAIRS SECTION USAFIK CMA KOREAN GOVERNMENT HAS COLLECTED TWO FIVE THREE SIX TO SIX SUK OF GRAIN AS OF ONE EIGHT NOVEMBER PD QUOTA IS SEVEN AND ONE HALF MILLION SUK PD COMMENT CLN NO INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED CONCERNING FARMERS ATTITUDES AND REACTIONS TOWARD GOVERNMENTS INCENTIVE PROGRAM OF ISSUING CONSUMER GOODS COUPONS PLUS PAYMENT FOR RICE TURNED IN PD AMERICAN ADVISORS STATE THAT NO PREDICTION CAN BE MADE CONCERNING RICE COLLECTION UNTIL APPROXIMATELY ONE DECEMBER BECAUSE OF LATE START OF PROGRAM AND FACT THAT RECENT FIGURES SUBMITTED ARE ENTIRELY FROM KOREAN SOURCES PARA SUBVERSIVE CLN PARA ONE PD GROUPS OF RAIDERS WERE REPORTED DURING PERIOD TO BE ASSEMBLED IN MOUNTAINOUS AREAS OF KANGWON DO PD INITIAL POLICE DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 2 of [illegible] SECRET REPORTS IDENTIFIED RAIDERS AS MEMBERS OF NORTH KOREAN PEOPLES ARMY AND AT LEAST ONE MEMBER OF CHINESE EIGHTH ROUTE ARMY PD POLICE AND CONSTABULARY UNITS CMA COMMITTED ONE TWO NOVEMBER CMA CAPTURED FOUR RAIDERS ON ONE FIVE DASH ONE SIX NOVEMBER PD PRISONER INTERROGATION REVEALED THAT GROUP FROM WHICH PRISONERS CAME WAS ALLEGEDLY SIX ZERO STRONG CMA MINE ZERO PERCENT OF WHOM ARE SOUTH KOREA LABOR PARTY WHO HAD RECENTLY COMPLETED TWO AND ONE HALF MONTH POLITICAL SCHOOL AT TAE SONG HI/ COORDINATES PAREN EIGHT SIX ZERO DASH ONE EIGHT FIVE ZERO PAREN NEAR PYONGYANG PARA UPON COMPLETION OF THEIR SCHOOLING THE STUDENTS CMA REPORTEDLY NUMBERING ONE ZERO ZERO ZERO WERE DIVIDED INTO GROUPS OR COMPANIES OF SIX ZERO AND SENT TO SOUTH KOREA WITH MISSION OF CREATING DISTURBANCES AND RIOTS AND KILLING RIGHTIST AND POLICE PD ONE GROUP OF SIX ZERO WAS TO HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO EACH GUN IN SOUTH KOREA PD EACH MEMBER WAS ARMED WITH JAPANESE RIFLE OR CARBINE AND SEVEN ZERO ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION PD IN ADDITION EACH GROUP CARRIED TWO FOUR HAND GRENADES PD ADDITIONAL ARMS AND AMMUNITION CMA AS WELL AS REINFORCEMENTS CMA WERE TO BE AVAILABLE IN ODAE MOUNTAIN COORDINATES PAREN ONE ONE FIVE ZERO DASH ONE SIX SEVEN ZERO PAREN AREA PD PAREN POLICE REPORT PAREN PD COMMENT CLN THERE HAS BEEN NO REPORT OF ANY ACTS OF VIOLENCE COMMITTED BY RAIDERS IN KANGWON DO PD ABSENCE OF ANY RIOTS OR DISTURBANCES IS PROBABLY RESULT OF PROMPT ACTION BY POLICE AND CONSTABULARY IN BRINGING AREA UNDER SURVEILLANCE PARA CAPTURED RAIDERS WERE NOT WEARING UNIFORMS CMA AND THEIR WEAPONS WEREJAPANESE CMA WHEREAS PEOPLES ARMY IS EQUIPPED WITH SOVIET RIFLES PARA THERE HAS BEEN NO CONFIRMATION OF PRESENCE OF ANY PEOPLES ARMY OR CHINESE EIGHTH ROUTE ARMY MEMBERS AND THEIR EXISTENCE IN AREA IS CONSIDERED IMPROBABLE PARA THERE HAVE BEEN MANY REPORTS IN PAST OF SOUTH KOREA LABOR PARTY SENDING MEMBERS TO NORTH KOREA TO ATTEND SO CALLED POLITICAL SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLS TO TRAIN PERSONNEL IN RIOT METHODS PD DURATION OF THESE SCHOOLS HAS BEEN REPORTED TO BE FROM ONE TO SIX MONTHS AND UPON COMPLETION OF TRAINING STUDENTS WERE TO RETURN TO SOUTH KOREA AND CREATE RIOTS AND DISTURBANCES AND FURTHER COMMUNIST CAUSE PARA EXTREMELY RUGGED TERRAIN IN VICINITY OF PARALLEL BETWEEN 3 of 16 DECLASSIFIED Authority[illegible] XRAY DASH COORDINATES ONE ONE TWO ZERO AND ONE ONE SIX ZERO MAKES THIS AREA ABLE SUITABLE AVENUE FOR THE PENETRATION OF GUERRILLA FORCES FROM NORTH KOREA PD PARA TWO PD ISOLATED GROUPS OF CONSTABULARY MUTINEERS CMA REINFORCED BY CIVILIAN RAIDERS CMA HAVE CONTINUED TO ATTACK POLICE AND CONSTABULARY UNITS IN CHOLLA NAMDO AND CHOLLA PUKTO DURING THE PERIOD PD MUTINEERS AND RIOTERS HAVE LOST ONE ONE KILLED AND THREE TWO CAPTURED ALONG WITH FIVE EIGHT JAPANESE AND UNCLE SUGAR RIFLES SMCLN LOYAL FORCES HAVE LOST ONE KILLED AND EIGHT ZERO CAPTURED PD THE MUTINEERS ALSO CAPTURED TWO MORTARS FROM THE LOYALISTS PD REBEL STRENGTH CMA ACCORDING TO CONSTABULARY ESTIMATES CMA ARE PAREN SAN AREA PAREN ONE ZERO SIX ZERO DASH ONE THREE FOUR ZERO PAREN DASH THREE ZERO ZERO ZERO SMCLN POLSYO RI AREA PAREN ONE ZERO THREE FOUR DASH ONE THREE ONE THREE PAREN DASH TWO ZERO ZERO SMCLN KOHUNG AREA PAREN ONE ZERO THREE ZERO DASH ONE TWO EIGHT FIVE PAREN DASH ONE FIVE ZERO SMCLN POSUND AREA PAREN ONE ZERO ZERO EIGHT DASH ONE THREE ZERO FIVE PAREN DASH THREE ZERO ZERO PD PARA COMMENT CLN BECAUSE OF THE NATURE OF THE TERRAIN CMA THE DISPERSION OF THE MUTINEERS AND CIVILIAN RIOTERS CMA AND THE POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE CMA EITHER VOLUNTARY OR INVOLUNTARY CMA WHICH CAN BE RENDERED BY THE POPULACE CMA THE MOPPING UP OF THESE GROUPS BY CONSTABULARY AND POLICE WILL BE DIFFICULT AND ATTACKS ON POLICE BOXES AND RAIDS ON VILLAGES CAN BE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE PD PARA ON CHEJU DO CONSTABULARY ACTION HAS RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF FIVE ONE RAIDERS PD PAREN PMAG REPORT PAREN PARA COMMENT CLN CREDIT FOR SUCCESSFUL SORTIES AGAINST THE GUERRILLAS MAY BE GIVEN VILLAGERS WHO ARE ASSISTING THE AUTHORITIES BY GIVING INFORMATION CONCERNING GUERRILLA LOCATIONS AND PLANS PD RECENT GUERRILLA ATTACKS AND BURNING OF HOMES HAVE AROUSED CIVILIAN ANTAGONISM TOWARD THE RAIDERS IN MANY LOCALES PD PARA THREE PD AN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER OF THE CONSTABULARY RECENTLY b of 1 [illegible] DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET SECRET REPORTED THAT THERE ARE DISAFFECTED ELEMENTS WITHIN THE ONE ZERO CONSTABULARY REGIMENT AT KANGNUNG PAREN ONE SEVEN EIGHT ZERO DASH ONE SIX SEVEN ZERO PAREN PD INTERNAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THIS INCLUDE COMPETITION BETWEEN THE REGIMENTAL COMMANDER AND THE ASSISTANT COMMANDER FOR THE ALLEGIANCE OF THE OFFICERS CMA RESTRICTION OF ENLISTED MEN CMA USE OF ENLISTED MEN FOR PERSONAL SERVICES AND COMMUNIST ELEMENTS WITHIN THE UNIT SMCLN EXTERNAL FACTORS CONTRIBUTING INCLUDE COMMUNISTS WITHOUT THE GROUP AND THE INFLUENCE OF CONTACT WITH TRADERS FROM NORTH KOREA WHO ATTEMPT TO ASSIST THE COMMUNISTS PD PARA COMMENT CLN THE MOUNTAIN AREA NORTHWEST OF KANGNUNG HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN AS ABLE HIDEOUT OF COMMUNIST GUERRILLA GROUPS AND THE ONE ZERO REGIMENT CMA WHICH HAS BEEN IN THIS AREA FOR MORE THAN THREE MONTHS CMA WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY BE INFILTRATED OR INFLUENCED BY THESE ELEMENTS PD CONSEQUENTLY CMA SHOULD ANY OF THE DISAFFECTED ELEMENTS WITHIN THE REGIMENT TAKE ANY ACTION THEY WOULD PROBABLY BE STRONGLY SUPPORTED BY COMMUNISTS IN THE AREA AND POSSIBLY BY FORCES FROM NORTH OF THE PARALLEL PD PARA SINCE THE PURGE OF COMMUNISTS FROM THE CONSTABULARY BEGAN ON ONE FIVE SEPTEMBER AT LEAST FIVE EIGHT MEMBERS OF THE ONE ZERO REGIMENT CMA INCLUDING ONE ZERO OFFICERS CMA HAVE BEEN ARRESTED PD PARA FOUR PD GEORGE DASH TWO CMA FEC CMA FORWARDED INFORMATION ALLEGEDLY SENT TO HEADQUARTERS CMA LEAGUE OF KOREANS RESIDING IN JAPAN FROM THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA THAT THREE UPRISINGS CMA LED BY NORTH KOREAN COMMUNISTS CMA WILL BE LAUNCHED IN SOUTH KOREA IN THE NEAR FUTURE PD THE RECENT UPRISINGS IN SOUTH KOREA WERE CARRIED OUT UPON ORDERS FROM MOSCOW AND WERE TO DETERMINE WHAT ACTIONS THE KOREAN GOVERNMENT AND UNITED STATES TROOPS WOULD TAKE TO QUELL THE AFFAIR PD MOSCOW ALLEGEDLY FEELS THAT THE UNITED STATES WILL TAKE NO ACTION IN KOREAN INTERNAL AFFAIRS PD PAREN CHARLIE DASH THREE PAREN PARA FIVE PD SINCE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GOVERNMENT AMNESTY DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET 5 of 16 SECRET LAW PAREN WEEKA FOUR ZERO PAREN ON TWO SEVEN SEPTEMBER CMA ABLE TOTAL OF EIGHT EIGHT ONE PERSONS CLASSIFIED AS POLITICAL PRISONERS HAVE BEEN RELEASED THROUGHOUT SOUTH KOREA PD THE POLICE CONSIDER THAT ONE ZERO SIX ARE PROMINENT COMMUNISTS AND ARE OF THE OPINION THAT THESE MEN ARE NOW MORE ENERGETIC IN THEIR PARTY WORK THAN THEY WERE BEFORE THEIR ARREST AND CMA FURTHER CMA THAT THEIR POSITIONS IN THE PARTY HAVE BEEN ENHANCED BY THEIR PRISON TERMS PD PARA GENERAL PUBLIC OPINION CMA AMONG NON DASH COMMUNISTS CMA APPEARS TO BE THAT THOUGH THE GOVERNMENTS ACTION IN PASSING THE AMNESTY LAW WAS COMMENDABLE CMA MORE DISCRETION SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHOWN IN THE SELECTION OF PRISONERS TO BE RELEASED PD PARA COMMENT CIN THE COMMUNIST STRENGTH CAN BE CONSIDERED TO BE INCREASED BY AT LEAST THE NUMBER OF PROMINENT COMMUNISTS RELEASED CMA AND ALTHOUGH THERE HAS BEEN NO EVIDENCE OF AN INCREASE IN COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES PAREN EXCEPT IN INCHON PAREN THIS IS PROBABLY DUE TO CONTINUED POLICE SURVEILLANCE OF THE RELEASED PRISONERS PD PARA SIX PD DURING THE PERIOD THREE ONE OCTOBER DASH ONE THREE NOVEMBER POLICE ARRESTED ABOUT FIVE THREE ZERO ZERO LEFTISTS CMA MODERATES AND DISSIDENT RIGHTISTS IN SOUTH KOREA IN AN EFFORT TO PRECLUDE ANY DISTURBANCES ON ZERO SEVEN NOVEMBER CMA THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION PD MANY OF THOSE ARRESTED WERE RELEASED WITHIN A FEW DAYS PD LYUH WOON HONG CMA MODERATE WHO ATTENDED PYONGYANG CONFERENCE CMA SAYS HE HAD TO SIGN STATEMENT SUPPORTING REPUBLIC BEFORE HIS RELEASE FROM JAIL PD PARA SEVEN PD DATES FOR FUTURE COMMUNIST RIOTS AND DISTURBANCES INCLUDE SOUTH KOREA LABOR PARTY RIOT IN INCHON PAREN NINE SIX ZERO DASH ONE SIX THREE ZERO PAREN PRIOR TO TWO FIVE NOVEMBER CMA PAREN BAKER DASH TWO PAREN SMCIN RAILROAD STRIKE ONE NINE NOVEMBER FOUR EIGHT CMA PAREN CHARLIE DASH THREE PAREN SMCIN TWO REPORTS OF DISTURBANCES IN PUSAN PAREN ONE TWO ZERO ZERO DASH ONE THREE FIVE ZERO PAREN AT ABLE FUTURE DATE CMA PAREN CHARLIE DASH THREE AND FOX DASH SIX PAREN 6 of 16 DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET SMGLN ASSASSINATIONS IN KYONGSANG PUNTO AT ABLE FUTURE DATE CMA PAREN CHARLIE DASH THREE PAREN SMGLN AND ABLE ONE ZERO DECEMBER ATTACK ON MUKHO COAST GUARD BASE PD PAREN CHARLIE DASH SIX PAREN PARA EIGHT PD THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS HAVE BEEN IMPOSED ON CHEJU DO BY KOREAN OFFICIALS AS ABLE RESULT OF COMMUNIST ACTIVITY CLN ALL FISHING BOATS HAVE BEEN RESTRICTED SINCE TWO ZERO OCTOBER TO PREVENT TRAFFIC TO THE YOSU AREA SMGLN AND CMA ON ZERO NINE NOVEMBER CMA ALL MIDDLE SCHOOLS WERE CLOSED PENDING LOYALTY CHECKS ON TEACHERS AND STUDENTS PD PARA NINE PD COMMUNIST VIOLENCE CMA INCLUDING ALL AREAS CMA RESULTED IN TWO ATTACKS ON POLICE CMA ONE ATTACK ON CONSTABULARY CMA TWO POLICE KILLED CMA AND FIVE THREE COMMUNISTS KILLED PD DELAYED REPORTS CREDIT THE COMMUNISTS WITH TWO ARSON CASES PD RIGHTISTS WERE INVOLVED IN ONE ASSASSINATION CMA ONE ATTACK ON AN INDIVIDUAL PD PERSONS OF UNKNOWN POLITICAL AFFILIATION CAUSED ONE ASSASSINATION CMA ATTACKED ONE INDIVIDUAL AND CREATED ONE DEMONSTRATION PD PARA PSYCHOLOGICAL CLN PARA ONE PD THE PRINCIPAL ITEM OF INTEREST TO BOTH THE PUBLIC AND THE PRESS DURING THE WEEK WAS THE DISSENSION BETWEEN THE EXECUTIVE AND LEGISLATIVE BRANCHES OF THE GOVERNMENT PD THE CHIEF BONE OF DISCONTENT CONTINUES TO BE THE REORGANIZATION OF THE PRESIDENTS CABINET PD PARA COMMENT CLN RHEE HIMSELF HAS INDICATED THAT HE IS COGNIZANT OF THE NEED FOR CHANGES IN HIS ADMINISTRATION WHICH WOULD RESULT IN ABLE GREATER DEGREE OF SUPPORT BY THE PEOPLE PD REPORTEDLY CMA IN CONFERENCES WITH LEADERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CMA HE DISCUSSED THE POSSIBILITY OF BRINGING KIM SUNG SOO CMA CHAIRMAN OF THE HANKOOK DEMOCRATIC PARTY CMA AND KIM KOO CMA OUTSTANDING FIGURE IN NON DASH COMMUNIST OPPOSITION TO THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT CMA INTO THE ADMINISTRATION PD IT WAS AGREED CMA THE REPORT STATED CMA THAT THESE TWO POLITICAL LEADERS COULD BRING MUCH NEEDED SUPPORT TO THE GOVERNMENT IF THEY DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 D 6 of 16 SET OUT TO DO SO CMA BUT IT WAS CONSIDERED HIGHLY IMPROBABLE THAT THE TWO MEN CMA WHO ARE BITTER ENEMIES CMA WOULD PARTICIPATE TOGETHER IN ANY ACTIVITY CMA REGARDLESS OF ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE WELFARE OF KOREA PD PARA THE PLANS OF THE HANKOOK DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO OBTAIN GREATER POWER IN THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM NUMEROUS SOURCES AND ARE UNDOUBTEDLY TRUE PD RECENTLY IT WAS REPORTED THAT THE HANKOOK DEMOCRATIC PARTY WOULD NOT FULLY APPLY ITS PRESSURE FOR REORGANIZATION OF THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT UNTIL A LATER DATE CMA SINCE CMA THEY REASON CMA IN THE EVENT THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA IS REORGANIZED NOW AND IS NOT RECOGNIZED BY THE UNITED NATIONS CMA THE HANKOOK DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL BE BLAMED FOR THE FAILURE TO GAIN [illegible] RECOGNITION PD DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 8 of 16 SECRET WEEKA #47 NORTH KOREA SECTION PARA CURRENT PARA ONE PD SUPPLEMENTING REPORTS THAT THE RAILS OF ONE LINE OF THE DOUBLE TRACK SYSTEM BETWEEN PYONGYANG AND SEOUL HAVE BEEN REMOVED BETWEEN KUMCHON AND HANCHONJOM PAREN WILLIAM SLANT SUGAR ONE SIX FIVE PAREN CMA AMERICAN SOURCES NOW REPORT THAT AT THE PRESENT TIME TIES ARE BEING REMOVED FROM THE ROADBED IN THE AREA JUST NORTH OF KUMCHON PD NO NEW TIES WERE OBSERVED PD PAREN ABLE DASH ONE PARA TWO PD THE FOLLOWING FRAGMENTARY REPORTS PAREN EVALUATED AS RUMORS PAREN INDICATING THE POSSIBILITY OF AN INVASION OF SOUTH KOREA WERE RECEIVED DURING THE PERIOD CLN PAREN ONE PAREN IT IS RUMORED IN HAEJU PAREN EIGHT SEVEN ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN ZERO ZERO PAREN THAT NORTH KOREAN TROOPS WILL INVADE SOUTH KOREA IN DECEMBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT SMCLN PAREN TWO PAREN INFORMANT STATED THAT PUBLIC OPINION IS DIVIDED REGARDING THE MISSION OF THE PEOPLES ARMY PERSONNEL THAT HAD MOVED TO THE AREA BETWEEN THE THREE EIGHT AND THREE NINE PARALLELS PD SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THE TRANSFER IS FOR THREE EIGHT PARALLEL GUARD DUTY ONLY CMA WHILE OTHERS STATED THAT THE PEOPLES ARMY IS MOVING SOUTH TO ATTACK SOUTH KOREA IN LATE DECEMBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT SMCLN PAREN THREE PAREN AN INFORMANT HEARD OVER AND OVER AGAIN ABLE RUMOR THAT THE RUSSIANS WILL ATTEMPT TO GET THE UNITED NATIONS TO FORCE THE UNITED STATES TO LEAVE SOUTH KOREA CMA THEN THE NORTH KOREAN ARMED FORCES WILL ATTACK AND CONQUER ALL KOREA PD PARA COMMENT CLN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PERMANENT QUARTERS FOR THE IN MIN GUN AND THE REMOVAL OF RAIL LINES NEAR THE THREE EIGHT PARALLEL ARE NOT CONSIDERED INDICATIVE OF AN IMMEDIATE INVASION PD PAREN SEE ARMED FORCES CMA CURRENT CMA THIS WEEKA PAREN PARA THREE PD THE FOLLOWING REPORT HAS BEEN RECEIVED FROM ABLE REFUGEES FROM NORTH KOREA WHO HAD RECENTLY BEEN EMPLOYED AS ABLE FARMER NEAR DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET 8-9-16 WEREKA #47 HYESANJIN PAREN ONE ONE ONE ZERO DASH TWO ONE ONE ZERO PAREN PD PARA BEGINNING IN AUGUST ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT THE FARMERS STARTED TO PAY THEIR YEARLY TAX PD THIS TAX WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SET BY THE GOVERNMENT AT TWO THREE TO TWO SEVEN PERCENT OF THE ANNUAL YIELD BUT AT COLLECTION TIME APPROXIMATELY FIVE ZERO PERCENT OF THE CROP HAS BEEN TAKEN PD PARA COMMENT CLN THIS IS THE USUAL COMPLAINT OF THE NORTH KOREAN FARMERS IN THAT THE CROP TAXES ARE LEVIED DURING THE PLANTING SEASON AND ARE BASED ON THE EXPECTED YIELD PD ANY FAILURE OF THE CROP INCREASES THE PERCENTAGE ABOVE CMA IN SOME CASES CMA THE FIGURE REPORTED BY THE INFORMANT PD PAREN SEE WERKA TWO FOUR PAREN PARA MILITARY PARA ONE PD AMERICAN SOURCES REPORT THAT DURING CONVERSATION WITH SOVIET SOLDIERS IN PYONGYANG ON ONE SIX NOVEMBER THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION CMA RELIABILITY UNDETERMINED CMA WAS OBTAINED CLN PAREN ONE PAREN GENERAL MERKULOV CMA COMMANDING OFFICER OF ALL FORCES IN NORTH KOREA CMA IS STILL IN PYONGYANG AND WILL REMAIN UNTIL THE END OF THE EVACUATION PD PAREN TWO PAREN PRACTICALLY ALL OF EACH DIVISION PAREN ONE ZERO MECHANIZED AT MIRIM DASH RI AND FOUR ZERO RIFLE AT HAMHUNG PAREN ONE ZERO FOUR ZERO DASH ONE NINE TWO ZERO PAREN PAREN HAS LEFT PD REMAINING SOVIET TROOPS IN NORTH KOREA TOTAL ABOUT TWO REGIMENTS PD PAREN THREE PAREN KOMMANDANTURA HAVE DEPARTED FROM BORDER AREAS PD PAREN FOUR PAREN KOMMANDANTURA ARE EXPECTED TO LEAVE WITH OTHER TROOPS BY THE END OF DECEMBER PD PARA PARTIAL CORROBORATION OF SOME OF THE INFORMATION REPORTED ABOVE IS AN FOX DASH THREE REPORT WHICH STATES THAT UP TO AND INCLUDING TWO ZERO OCTOBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT CMA APPROXIMATELY EIGHT ZERO ZERO ZERO SOVIET TROOPS PASSED THROUGH HAMHUNG STAGING AREA WITH ANOTHER FIVE ZERO ZERO ZERO STILL QUARTERED THERE AWAITING TRANSPORTATION PD THE MAJORITY OF THESE TROOPS ARE REPORTEDLY FROM PYONGYANG AND SINUIJU PAREN DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 9-1016 WEEKA #47 SEVEN FIVE ZERO DASH ONE NINE FIVE ZERO PAREN AND DEPARTURE FROM HAMHUNG IS MADE VIA LAND ROUTE BY TRUCK CONVOYS AS WELL AS BY TRAIN DASH SIX TO EIGHT TRAINS LEAVING DAILY PD MOVEMENT IS BEING CARRIED OUT UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS WITH TRUCK CONVOYS AND TRAINS WAITING OVER AT SMALL VILLAGES AND TOWNS DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS PD PARA COMMENT CIN TO DATE SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO ACCEPT DEPARTURE OF VIRTUALLY BOTH DIVISIONS IS LACKING PD INFORMATION ON THE FOUR ZERO RIFLE DIVISION AT HAMHUNG DEPARTING OR PREPARING TO WITHDRAW FROM THIS LOCATION HAS NOT BEEN RECEIVED PD DEPARTURES OF MAJOR SUBORDINATE UNITS OF THIS DIVISION CMA THE ONE SEVEN EIGHT RIFLE REGIMENT AT CHARRYONG PAREN EIGHT SIX ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN FOUR ZERO PAREN CMA THIRD RIFLE REGIMENT AND SIX ZERO FOUR ARTILLERY REGIMENT AT WONSAN PAREN ONE ZERO FOUR ZERO DASH ONE EIGHT THREE ZERO PAREN WERE REPORTED AND ACCEPTED PAREN WEEKA FOUR FOUR PAREN PD WHETHER THESE UNITS RETURNED TO THEIR PARENT ORGANIZATION PAREN FOUR ZERO RIFLE DIVISION PAREN OR PROCEEDED TO THE MARITIME PROVINCE IS NOT KNOWN PD PARA INFORMATION ON THE PYONGYANG DASH MIRИМ DASH NI AREA CMA ALTHOUGH FRAGMENTARY IN NATURE CMA NOW PLACES THE NUMBER OF SOVIET TROOPS DEPARTING FROM THIS AREA AT FOUR SEVEN FOUR ZERO SMCLN AN INCREASE OF ONE FOUR SEVEN ZERO OVER THE FIGURE OF THREE TWO SEVEN ZERO REPORTED IN WEEKA FOUR SIX PD IT IS REALIZED THAT THIS FIGURE DOES NOT REPRESENT ALL FORCES DEPARTING THIS AREA CMA FOR NOT ALL MOVEMENT CAN OR EVER WILL BE REPORTED PD HOWEVER CMA THE REPORT THAT SOME ONE THREE ZERO ZERO ZERO TROOPS PASSED THROUGH HAMHUNG COVERS VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRE SOVIET INSTALLATION IN WESTERN NORTH KOREA PD THE LACK OF REPORTED MOVEMENT OF ABLE LARGE QUANTITY OF MECHANIZED EQUIPMENT AND THE FACT THAT MECHANIZED EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN OBSERVED BY AMERICAN SOURCES AS LATE AS ONE SEVEN NOVEMBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT AT DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET 101-16 WEEKA #47 MIRIM DASH NI PRECLUDES ACCEPTANCE OF WITHDRAWAL OF THE ENTIRE ONE ZERO MECHANIZED DIVISION PD THIS UNIT MAKES UP THE BULK OF SOVIET FORCES IN WESTERN NORTH KOREA PD IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE TROOPS OBSERVED PASSING THROUGH HAMHUNG WERE TROOPS FROM THE ONE SEVEN EIGHT RIFLE REGIMENT CMA THIRD RIFLE REGIMENT CMA SIX ZERO FOUR ARTILLERY REGIMENT AND SOME FROM THE PYONGYANG DASH MIRIM DASH NI AREA PAREN SEE ESTIMATED NUMBER SOVIET TROOPS DEPARTED IN WEEKA FOUR FOUR PAREN PD MOVEMENT OF THESE FORCES APPEARS TO HAVE STARTED IN SEPTEMBER WITH THE BULK MOVING SOME TIME DURING THE MIDDLE OF OCTOBER PD PARA THE REPORT THAT KOMMANDATURA HAVE DEPARTED FROM BORDER AREAS APPEARS PREMATURE FOR SMALL NUMBERS OF SOVIET PERSONNEL BELIEVED TO BELONG TO THIS ORGANIZATION ARE STILL BEING REPORTED PD PARA TWO PD FOLLOWING INDICATIONS OF MOVEMENT SOVIET AIR FORCES FROM NORTH KOREA RECEIVED DURING PERIOD CLN PARA ABLE PD PYONGYANG PAREN EIGHT EIGHT ZERO DASH ONE EIGHT TWO ZERO PAREN PARA PLANE COUNTS BY RELIABLE SOURCES TOTALED ON ONE ONE AND ONE FIVE NOVEMBER RESPECTIVELY CLN SINGLE DASH ENGINE FIGHTER OR GROUND ATTACK TYPE FOUR FOUR CMA THREE ZERO SMGLN CHARLIE DASH FOUR SEVEN TYPE TRANSPORT FOUR CMA EIGHT SMGLN BAKER DASH TWO FIVE TYPE PLANE ONE CMA ONE PD PAREN ABLE DASH ONE PAREN PARA BAKER PD MIRIM DASH NI PAREN EIGHT NINE ZERO DASH ONE EIGHT TWO ZERO PAREN PARA NO PLANES OF ANY TYPE SEEN ON THE MIRIM DASH NI FIELD ON ONE FIVE NOVEMBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT CMA NO AIR ACTIVITY OBSERVED AT THE AIRFIELD DURING PERIOD FOUR TO ONE SEVEN NOVEMBER PD PAREN ABLE DASH TWO PAREN PARA COMMENT CLN THE DECREASE FROM AN AVERAGE OF ONE FIVE FOUR TO THREE ZERO IN SINGLE DASH ENGINE TYPE PLANES AT PYONGYANG AIRFIELD NOTED SINCE TWO SEVEN OCTOBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT PAREN WEEKA FOUR FIVE PAREN CMA AND THE ABSENCE DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 12/16 WEEKA #47 SECRET OF ALL AIRCRAFT FROM MIRDI DASH NI CMA ARE INDICATIVE OF THE PROBABLE DEPARTURE OF ALL BUT ONE REGIMENT OF EITHER THE TWO FIVE ONE GROUND ATTACK DIVISION OR THE TWO ZERO SIX FIGHTER DIVISION PD FURTHER CLARIFICATION OF TYPE OF CRAFT OBSERVED AT PYONGYANG WILL DETERMINE WHETHER THE REMAINING UNIT IS FIGHTER OR GROUND ATTACK PD PARA THREE PD BULK OF REPORTS ON PEOPLES ARMY FORCES MOVING INTO AREA BETWEEN THREE EIGHT AND THREE NINE PARALLEL ONLY CORROBORATE WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN PD NO CHANGES IN STRENGTH OR DISPOSITION HAVE BEEN REPORTED PD RELIABLE SOURCES EVALUATED ABLE DASH ONE REPORT SOME NEWLY CONSTRUCTED BUILDINGS AT KUMCHON PAREN NINE FIVE ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN ZERO ZERO PAREN ARE NOW OCCUPIED BY PEOPLES ARMY TROOPS PD ADDITIONAL CONSTRUCTION CONTINUING AND UPON COMPLETION SOURCES ESTIMATE WILL BE CAPABLE OF HOUSING AT LEAST TWO COMPANIES PD NEW CONSTRUCTION ALSO OBSERVED IN NAMCHONJOM PAREN NINE FOUR ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN THREE ZERO PAREN CMA HOWEVER CMA IT IS NOT KNOWN WHETHER NEW BUILDINGS WILL BE USED FOR PEOPLES ARMY TROOPS PD PARA COMMENT CLN UNCONFIRMED FRAGMENTARY REPORTS INDICATED NEW CONSTRUCTION OF BARRACKS IN THE AREA BETWEEN THREE EIGHT AND THREE NINE PARALLELS FOR FUTURE ARRIVAL OF PEOPLES ARMY FORCES PD THE ABOVE INFORMATION CONFIRMS THAT SUCH CONSTRUCTION ON ABLE PERMANENT BASIS IS TAKING PLACE PD PARA FOUR PD THE ACQUISITION BY THE PEOPLES ARMY OF FORMER INSTALLATIONS IN CHINNAMP O RELINQUISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS INDEPENDENT BRIGADE IN SEPTEMBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT PAREN WEEKA FOUR FIVE PAREN CMA IS VERIFIED BY SEVERAL SOURCES WHO INDICATE BY DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA THAT ABLE TRAINING INSTALLATION HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED PD PARA COMMENT CLN THIS INSTALLATION IN CHINNAMPO IS PROBABLY ONE OF SEVERAL TRAINING CENTERS ESTABLISHED AS ABLE DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET CR13-16 WEEKA #47 SECRET RESULT OF ACCELERATED RECRUITMENT OF ELIGIBLE MALES IN NORTH KOREA PAREN WEEKA FOUR SIX PAREN PD VARIATIONS IN STRENGTH ESTIMATES CMA RANGING FROM ONE FIVE ZERO ZERO TO SEVEN ZERO ZERO ZERO PEOPLES ARMY TROOPS IN THE AREA CMA PREVENT DETERMINATION OF THE SCOPE OF REPORTED TRAINING ACTIVITIES AND INFLUX OF RECRUITS PD PARA MOBILIZATION PARA NORTH KOREAN SOURCES REPORT THAT RICE PRICES HAVE FALLEN TO TWO FIVE ZERO WON PER SMALL MAL PAREN TWO POINT THREE EIGHT GALLONS PAREN PD THIS CAN PROBABLY BE ACCOUNTED FOR BY THE FACT THAT THE NEW CROP HAS BEEN RECENTLY GATHERED CMA CAUSING ABLE TEMPORARILY EXCESSIVE SUPPLY PD THE EXCHANGE RATE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREAN WON IS STILL QUOTED TO BE THREE SOUTH KOREAN WON FOR ONE NORTH KOREAN WON PD PARA PSYCHOLOGICAL PARA ONE PD RADIO PYONGYANG HAS BROADCAST FOR THE FIRST TIME THEIR REACTIONS TO THE REPORTS PUBLISHED BY AMERICAN AND SOUTH KOREAN PAPERS THAT THERE WERE RIOTS IN NORTH KOREA PD IT WAS CHARGED THAT ANOTHER CRIME COULD BE LAID AT THE DOOR OF THE QTE PUPPET GOVERNMENT UNQTE AND THE QTE REACTIONARY AMERICANS UNQTE AND THAT CRIME WAS QTE DECEPTION PD UNQTE PARA RADIO PYONGYANG SAID IN PART CMA QTE IT IS NOT ACCIDENTAL THAT TWO THREE TWO ZERO PERSONS WERE EXECUTED IN YOSU FROM OCTOBER TWO ZERO TO OCTOBER THREE ZERO CMA ACCORDING TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE SO DASH CALLED DEFENSE DEPARTMENT PD THEY ARE FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF THE GERMAN FASCISTS PD PARA QTE AT THE SAME TIME TRAITORS CMA CONFUSED AT THE UNEXPECTED ATTACK OF WORLD OPINION CMA ARE TRYING TO CONCEAL THE ACTUAL STATE OF THINGS PD ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF THEIR DECEPTIVE POLICY WAS GIVEN WHEN THEY INVENTED THE RIOTS IN NORTH KOREA PD ACCORDING TO THIS FALSE PROPAGANDA CMA ABLE BIG RIOT IS GOING ON IN NORTH KOREA AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WERE KILLED PD THE SOUTH KOREAN REACTIONARY PAPERS REPORTED THIS FALSE NEWS ON ABLE GRAND SCALE AS IF THEY HAD GOT WHAT THEY WANTED PD UNQTE DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET 13/ 14 SECRET WREKA #47 RADIO PYONGYANG CONTINUES TO BROADCAST COMMENTS ON THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE SOVIET TROOPS AND THE PLANS THAT THE AMERICANS HAVE FOR COLONIZING SOUTH KOREA PD EACH BROADCAST CALLS ON THE KOREAN PEOPLE TO FIGHT TO MAKE THE AMERICANS WITHDRAW PD ONE BROADCAST CALLED ON NORTH AND SOUTH KOREANS TO CONCENTRATE THEIR EFFORTS TO WAGE ABLE QTE DECISIVE BATTLE UNQTE TO MAKE THE UNITED STATES TROOPS GET OUT OF KOREA AND OVERTHROW THE QTE PUPPET GOVERNMENT PD PARA ONE OF THE MORE BRAZEN BROADCASTS OF RADIO PYONGYANG TALKED OF THE HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY IN THE SOVIET UNION WHEREAS IN THE DECADENT DEMOCRACIES PEOPLE CMA THROUGH POVERTY CMA WERE FORCED TO SELL THEIR CHILDREN AND EVEN THEIR EYES PD PARA THERE IS STILL NO CONFIRMATION OF THE REPORTED RIOTING IN NORTH KOREA PAREN SEE WREKA FOUR SIX PAREN PD REINTERROGATION OF ONE OF THE QTE PARTICIPANTS UNQTE IN THE RIOTS REVEALED THAT MOST OF THE INFORMATION REPORTED AS HAVING HAPPENED WAS ACTUALLY ONLY ABLE PLAN FOR RIOTS BY THE SOURCE AND ABLE GROUP OF HIS FRIENDS PD THESE PLANS CMA HOWEVER CMA NEVER DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 15-16 [illegible] SECRET WEEKA #47 MATERIALIZED PD AMERICAN SOURCES IN PYONGYAND REPORT THAT THERE HAVE BEEN NO RIOTS TO THEIR KNOWLEDGE PD PARA IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE RELEASE OF INFORMATION BY SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT SOURCES THAT RIOTS WERE TAKING PLACE CMA REFUGEE AND OTHER SOURCES FROM NORTH KOREA REPORTED THAT THEY HAD HEARD OF RIOTS IN OTHER PARTS OF NORTH KOREA ALTHOUGH THEY HAD NOT SEEN THEM PD TO DATE NONE HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED PD U. F. ERBE CWO USA ASST ADJ GEN 200435/2 DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 2 G B F-1939 SECRET 16-16 14-14