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NR. | PRECEDENCE | TRANSMISSION INSTRUCTIONS | ORIGINATOR | DATE-TIME GROUP V NR ACTION | INFORMATION | EXEMPT | OPERATING SIGNALS | GROUP COUNT 88 SPACE ABOVE FOR SIGNAL CENTER ONLY FROM: (Originator) CG USAFIK | SECURITY CLASSIFICATION SECRET ACTION TO: DEPARTMENT OF ARMY | PRECEDENCE FOR ACTION | INFORMATION PRIORITY ☐ ORIGINAL MESSAGE REFERS TO ANOTHER MESSAGE IDENTIFICATION | CLASSIFICATION INFORMATION TO: AMA CHINA C-2, FEC (3 December 1948) FOR INTELLIGENCE DIVISION CMA GENERAL STAFF CMA USA PD WEEKA NUMBER FOUR NINE CMA PERIOD TWO EIGHT NOVEMBER TO FOUR DECEMBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT PD CURRENT INTELLIGENCE PD PARA ONE PD THREE BILLS BECAME LAWS THIS WEEK CLN THE MILITARY ORGANIZATION LAW CMA THE NATIONAL SECURITY LAW AND THE TEMPORARY LAW ON POSTAL CENSORSHIP PD THE NATIONAL SECURITY LAW SPECIFIES PUNISHMENT FOR THOSE QTE POSE AS ABLE GOVERNMENT CMA UNQTE QTE SEEK TO CONSOLIDATE OR GROUP TOGETHER WITH THE OBJECT OF DISTURBING THE TRANQUILITY OF THE STATE CMA GROUP THEMSELVES AS OR FORM AN ORGANIZATION WITH THE AIM OF MURDER OR INCENDIARY ACTION AND DESTRUCTION OF COMMUNICATION FACILITIES CMA DELIBERATELY INCITE OR INDULGE IN PROPAGANDA TO ATTAIN THE AIMS OF THE ORGANIZATION OR GIVE WEAPONS CMA MONEY CMA SUPPLIES CMA PROMISES AND OTHER THINGS WITH THE AIM OF IMPLICATING OTHERS IN THE CLUTCHES OF THIS LAW PD UNQTE PENALTIES RANGE FROM IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE TO IMPRISONMENT FOR ONE YEAR PD THE LAW ALSO PROVIDES THAT CMA QTE THOSE WHO SECURITY CLASSIFICATION | SIGNATURE | AUTHORIZATION ORIGINATING AGENCY | DATE-TIME GROUP | OFFICIAL TITLE DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 PAGE 1 OF 4 WD AGO FORM 15 JUN 1948 11-168 This form supersedes WD AGO Form 11-168, 25 Aug 44, and WD AGO Form 801, 12 Mar 43, which are obsolete. PHILRYCOM—1/47—500M WEEKA FOUR NINE SECRET [illegible] HAVE COMMITTED ABLE CRIME AS SPECIFIED IN THIS LAW CMA BUT HAVE CONFESSED VOLUNTARILY SHALL HAVE THEIR PUNISHMENT MITIGATE OR SHALL BE ENTIRELY EXONERATED PD UNQTE COMMENT CLSN THE LAW SHOULD SUFFICE FOR THE PROSECUTION OF COMMUNISTS AND ANY OTHER DISSIDENT GROUP PD PARA THE TEMPORARY LAW ON POSTAL CENSORSHIP STATES THAT THE PRESIDENT CMA IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL SECURITY IS AUTHORIZED TO SUSPEND ALL COMMUNICATIONS WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND THE AREA NORTH OF THE THREE EIGHT PARALLEL SMCLN THE PRESIDENT MAY ESTABLISH AN AGENCY TO CENSOR MAILS SMCLN THE MINISTER OF COMMUNICATION MAY REQUIRE THE REGISTRY OF DISPATCH OR RECEIPT OF ABLE MISSIVE AND MAILS WHICH ENDANGER NATIONAL SECURITY OR THE PEACE OF THE NATION OR WHICH ARE AMBIGUOUS MAY BE CONFISCATED PD PARA PD THE QTE LAW ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE NATIONAL ARMED FORCES UNQTE PAREN WEEKA NUMBER FOUR SEVEN PAREN OUTLINES THE STRUCTURE OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AND PROVIDES FOR CONSCRIPTION PD THE PRESIDENT IS TO BE THE SUPREME COMMANDER PD ASSISTING THE PRESIDENT ARE FOUR AGENCIES SMCLN PAREN ONE PAREN THE SUPREME NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEE PAREN TWO PAREN THE CENTRAL INTELLICENCE BUREAU PAREN THREE PAREN THE COMMITTEE OF CONTROLS OVER RESOURCES FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE AND PAREN FOUR PAREN THE MILITARY AFFAIRS COUNCIL PD DIRECTLY UNDER THE SUPREME COMMANDER IS THE DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE HEADED BY THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENSE PD UNDER THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENSE IS THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY PD THIS HEADQUARTERS FUNCTIONS UNDER THE CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF CMA WHO WILL BE THE HIGHEST MILITARY OFFICIAL IN THE SECRET DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 2 16 SECRET ARMED FORCES PD SUBORDINATE TO THE CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF AND BOTH ON AN EQUAL LEVEL ARE THE CHIEFS OF STAFF FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY PD THE ARMY WILL CONSIST OF ABLE REGULAR ARMY AND A DEFENSE ARMY PAREN MILITIA PAREN PD THE REGULAR ARMY SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE ZERO ZERO CMA ZERO ZERO ZERO PERSONNEL DURING PEACE TIME AND THE STRENGTH OF THE MILITIA WILL BE DEPENDENT UPON THE STRENGTH OF THE REGULAR ARMY PD PARA PD THE NAVY LIKEWISE SHALL CONSIST OF TWO COMPONENTS CMA THE REGULAR NAVY AND THE DEFENSE NAVY PD THE REGULAR NAVY IS LIMITED TO ABLE PEACE TIME STRENGTH OF ONE ZERO CMA ZERO ZERO ZERO AND THE STRENGTH OF THE DEFENSE NAVY DEPENDS ON THE REGULAR NAVY STRENGTH PD PARA PD OTHER NOTEWORTHY FEATURES OF THE LAW ARE THE PROVISIONS FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF MILITARY DIVISION DISTRICTS NAVAL DISTRICTS CMA FLEETS AND NAVAL BASES CMA AND THE AIR PERSONNEL AS PART OF THE ARMY PD PARA PD THE LAW GIVES BROAD POWERS TO THE PRESIDENT PD HE IS AUTHORIZED TO ESTABLISH BY DECREE CLN PAREN ONE PAREN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY AND NAVY SMCLN PAREN TWO PAREN THE MILITARY AND NAVAL DISTRICTS PAREN THREE PAREN FLEETS AND NAVAL BASES PD IN ADDITION HE HAS THE POWER OF APPOINTING AND DISMISSING THE KEY OFFICERS PAREN SUBJECT TO ABLE DECISION BY THE CABINET IN THE CASE OF GENERALS PAREN IN THE ARMED FORCES PD THE CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF WILL BE SELECTED FROM THOSE OFFICERS PRESENTLY IN THE MILITARY SERVICE PD COMMENT CLN THE LAW IS AMBITIOUS FOR ABLE COUNTRY AS ECONOMICALLY WEAK AS KOREA PD THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FLEETS CMA NAVAL BASES AND AN AIR ARM OR SERVICE WILL DEPEND ON THE BUDGET PD IT IS PROBABLE THAT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS LAW WILL BE AN EXPANSION CMA ON A LIMITED SCALE CMA OF THE ALREADY EXISTING FACILITIES CMA FOR INSTANCE THE PRESENT COAST GUARD WILL PROBABLY FORM THE BASIS FOR THE NAVY PD SECRET DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 3 16 SECRET PARA PD ANOTHER FEATURE OF THE LAW WHICH MAY CAUSE DIFFICULTY IS THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENT TO DETERMINE THE COMPOSITION OF THE ARMY AND NAVY HEADQUARTERS AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY ORGANS PD THIS MAY LEAD TO ABLE DUPLICATION OF EFFORT CMA WHEREIN BUREAUS ARE [illegible] ORGANIZED TO PERFORM FUNCTIONS WHICH PROPERLY BELONG IN ABLE GENERAL OR SPECIAL STAFF SECTION PD THE USUAL POLITICAL DIFFICULTIES MAY ALSO BE ENCOUNTERED IN THE APPOINTMENT OF THE CHIEFS OF STAFF PD THE MILITARY ORGANIZATION AS PROVIDED FOR IN THIS LAW IS SOUND SMSLN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LAW IS WHAT WILL DETERMINE ITS EFFECTIVENESS PD PARA TWO PD ON TWO SIX NOVEMBER PRESIDENT RHEE BROADCAST AN APPEAL TO THE YOUTHS OF KOREA TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MILITIA WHICH IS TO BE ESTABLISHED UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENSE PD PARA THREE PD THE COMMANDING GENERAL CMA IN ABLE PRESS STATEMENT TWO SEVEN NOVEMBER CMA STATED THAT THE AMERICAN MILITARY MISSION IN KOREA IS MAKING SATISFACTORY PROGRESS IN TRAINING THE SECURITY FORCES OF KOREA PD COMMENT CLN THIS IS THE FIRST OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EXISTENCE OF THE MILITARY ADVISORY GROUP PD PARA FOUR PD THE FOREIGN MINISTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA ON TWO SIX NOVEMBER APPEALED TO THE UNCLE SUGAR STATE DEPARTMENT FOR ABLE POSTPONEMENT OF UNCLE SUGAR TROOP WITHDRAWAL PD PARA FIVE PD ACCORDING TO ABLE BAKER DASH TWO SOURCE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NORTHWEST YOUNG MENS ASSOCIATION CMA UNITED YOUNG MENS PARTY CMA THE GENERAL ALLIANCE OF KOREAN YOUNG MEN CMA KOREAN INDEPENDENCE YOUNG MENS SOCIETY CMA THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE ACCELERATION OF KOREAN INDEPENDENCE YOUTH CORPS AND THE KOREAN VETERANS ASSOCIATION MET IN SEOUL TWO NINE NOVEMBER AT THE REQUEST OF PRESIDENT RHEE PD SECRET DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 THE KOREAN NATIONAL YOUTH CORPS WAS NOT REPRESENTED PD THE REPRESENTATIVE WERE TO DISCUSS ABLE MERGER OF ALL YOUTH ORGANIZATIONS INTO THE QTE GREAT KOREAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION PD UNQTE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE ORGANIZATION ARE CLN PAREN ONE PAREN TO COMBAT COMMUNISM PAREN TWO PAREN TO UNIFY KOREA PAREN THREE PAREN TO FURNISH ABLE SOURCE OF MANPOWER FOR ABLE NATIONAL GUARD PAREN FOUR PAREN TO IMPROVE THE MIND AND BODY OF KOREAN YOUTH PD THE REPRESENTATIVES STATED THAT THEY WOULD FURNISH THE PRESIDENT TWO ZERO ZERO CMA ZERO ZERO ZERO MEN IF CLN PAREN ONE PAREN PRESIDENT RHEE WOULD ACTIVELY HEAD THE ORGANIZATION PAREN TWO PA EN ARMS WERE ISSUED AND TRAINING THEIR USE CONDUCTED BY AMERICAN OFFICERS DOWN TO COMPANY LEVEL PD PAREN THREE PAREN THE FOLLOWING MINISTERS WERE REPLACED CLN PRIME MINISTER CMA MINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS CMA MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CMA MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY CMA MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE PD COMMENT CLN THIS CONSOLIDATION CORRESPONDS GENERALLY TO ABLE PROPOSAL WHICH THE ASSEMBLY FORWARDED TO THE PRESIDENT EARLY IN NOVEMBER TO HAVE FIVE ZERO CMA ZERO ZERO ZERO MEN FROM THE PATRIOTIC YOUTH GROUPS ORGANIZED INTO XXXDXXXK ABLE YOUTH LEAGUE FOR PROTECTING THE NATION PD PAREN WEEXA NUMBER FOUR SIX PAREN PD THE PLANS OF CONSOLIDATION ERE PERHAPS ALSO INFLUENCED BY AN APPEAL WHICH PRESIDENT RHEE BROADCAST TO THE YOUTH OF THE REPUBLIC TWO XXXX SIX NOVEMBER PD IN VIEW OF PRESIDENT RHEES ADAMANT STAND AGAINST REORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT AT THIS TIME CMA IT IS UNLIKELY THAT RHEE WILL MEET CONDITION PAREN THREE PAREN ABOVE PD THE PRESENT LIMITED SUPPLY OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT WILL PRECLUDE FULFILLMENT OF CONDITION PAREN TWO PAREN PD SUCH BEING THE CASE RHEE WILL PROBABLY EJECT CONDITION PAREN ONE PAREN CMA WHICH APPARENTLY IS INTENDED O AFFORD THE NEW GROUP XXXXXXXXXXXXXX ABLE HIGHER OFFICIAL BACKING HAN THAT HELD BY THE KOREAN NATIONAL YOUTH GROUP WHICH WAS BUILT BY SECRET DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 57 18 SECRET AND CONTINUES TO PLEDGE A LEGIANCE TO PRIME MINISTER LEE BUM SUK PD PARA IT IS OBVIOUS THAT EVEN ABLE PARTIAL CONSOLIDATION OF THE YOUTH TO SUPPORT THE REPUBLIC WILL STRENGTHEN IT PD PAREN MILITARY CLN ONE PD STRENGTH CLN POLICE/NO CHANGE SMCLN CONSTABULARY DASH FOUR THREE CMA SEVEN ZERO TWO CMA COAST GUARD DASH THREE CMA FOUR NINE ZERO PD TWO PD TWO PARALLEL INCIDENTS WERE REPORTED DURING THE PERIOD PD BOTH INVOLVED ONLY KOREANS PD PARA MOBILIZATION POTENTIAL CLN ONE PD RICE PRICES IN SEOUL AVERAGED EIGHT FIVE ZERO WON PER SMALL METRIC MAL ON ZERO THREE DECEMBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT PD TWO PD CIVIL AFFAIRS SECTION REPORTS THAT ONE CMA THREE ONE EIGHT CMA ZERO ZERO ZERO SUK OF GRAIN HAS BEEN COLLECTED AS OF ZERO TWO DECEMBER PD THREE PD THE BANK OF CHOSUN ANNOUNCED THAT CURRENCY OUTSTANDING TWO NINE NOVEMBER TOTALED THREE NINE PD SIX BILLION WON PD THIS IS THE HIGHEST IN THE HISTORY OF KOREA PD COMMENT CLN TWO CONTRIBUTING FACTORS ARE THE GRAIN KMEXXX PURCHASING ACTIVITIES AND THE ADDED FACT THAT THE GOVERNMENT DEFICIT WENT UP NINE TWO THREE MILION WON DURING THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER PD PARA SUBVERSIVE CLN ONE PD ACTION CONTINUES AGAINST GUERRILLAS IN KANGWON DO PD IT APPEARS THAT FOUR GROUPS ARE OPERATING IN THE PROVINCE PD IN ADDITION TO THE QTE BATTALION UNQTE REPORTED LAST WEEK PAREN WEEKA NUMBER FOUR EIGHT PAREN CMA ONE UNCONFIRMED REPORT STATES THAT ANOTHER QTE BATTALION UNQTE ENTERED SOUTH KOREA NEAR SONGCHON PAREN ONE ONE FIVE EIGHT DASH ONE SIX SEVEN EIGHT PAREN PD ELEMENTS OF THE SEVENTH CMA EIGHTH AND TENTH CONSTABULARY REGIMENTS ARE IN CONTACT WITH THE GUERRILLAS PD PARA COMMENT CLN THE THREE SMALL GROUPS PAREN TOTALING NINE SIX PAREN REPORTED ARE PROBABLY REMNANTS OF THE FIRST BATTALION WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE ENTERED SOUTH KOREA EARLY IN NOVEMBER SECRET 6 16 DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 94750D SECRET PD A CCORDING TO PRISONERS CMA THE BATTALION CONSISTED OF THREE COMPANIES OF SIX ZERO MEN EACH CMA AND ABLE SMALL BATTALION HEADQUARTERS SMCLN THE CONSTABULARY REPORTS HAVING KILLED APPROXIMATELY FOUR ZERO AND CAPTURED THREE ZERO OF THE RAIDERS SMCLN AND ONE REPORT PAREN FOX DASH SIX PAREN WAS RECEIVED THAT TWO ZERO RAIDERS HAD RETURNED TO YANGYANG PAREN ONE ONE FIVE ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN ZERO ZERO PAREN PD THERE HAS BEEN NO CONFIRMATION F THE REPORT OF ANOTHER RAIDER BATTALION ENTERING SOUTH KOREA PD HOWEVER CMA THE TERRAIN IN KANGWON DO ALONG THE PARALLEL FACILITATES THE UNDETECTED ENTRY OF SMALL GROUPS CMA AND IT IS PROBABLY THAT EVENTUALLY ALL OF THE EIGHT ZERO ZERO TO ONE ZERO ZERO ZERO MEN WHO ATTENDED THE POLITICAL SCHOOL NEAR PYONGYANG WILL BE DISPATCHED TO SOUTH KOREA PD PARA TWO PD RAIDERS CONTINUED TO BE ACTIVE ON CHEJU DO AND TO BE ROUNDED UP BY THE CONSTABULARY PD DURING THIS PERIOD IT WAS REPORTED THAT TWO TOWN WERE ATTACKED CMA FIVE ZERO RIGHTISTS KILLED CMA THREE ZERO COMMUNISTS KILLED AND ABLE DELAYED SUMMARY FOR THE PERIOD ONE NINE DASH TWO SIX NOVEMBER LISTS ABLE TOTAL OF ONE XXX SIX SEVEN COMMUNISTS KILLED PD PARA THREE PD SMALL GROUPS OF MUTINEERS AND SYMPATHIZERS ARE STILL AT LARGE IN CHOLLA NAMDO PD POLICE AND CONSTABULARY UNITS ARE SCOURING THE AREA TO APPREHEND THOSE STILL ACTIVE PD POLICE REPORT THAT THREE TWO EIGHT POLICEMEN WERE KILLED AND FOUR SIX INJURED IN CHOLLA NAMDO DURING THE PERIOD ONE NINE OCTOBER DASH ONE THREE NOVEMBER PD PAREN POLICE REPORT PAREN THE CONSTABULARY REPORTS THAT AS OF TWO NINE NOVEMBER ONE CMA SEVEN ONE FOUR PAREN INCLUDING FIVE ZERO CIVILIANS PAREN PERSONS HAVE BEEN TRIED FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE YOSU DASH SUNCHON UPRISING PD OF THIS TOTAL EIGHT SIX SIX RECEIVED THE DEATH SENTENCE OF WHOM CMA SIX SEVEN HAVE BEEN EXECUTED CMA SECRET 7 19 DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET ONE FIVE ZERO RECEIVED A LIFE SENTENCE CMA FIVE FOUR ONE WERE DISMISSED AND THE REMAINDER RECEIVED SENTENCE OF FROM ONE TO TWO ZERO YEARS IMPRISONMENT PD AS OF TWO NINE NOVEMBER NINE ZERO ZERO PRISONERS WERE AWAITING XXXXX TRIAL PD PAREN CONSTABULARY REPORT PAREN PARA FOUR PD IN ADDITION TO DATES FOR COMMUNIST RIOTS AND XXXXXXX DISTURBANCES PREVIOUSLY CITED CMA AN FOX DASH SIX REPORT STATES THAT ABLE GENERAL UPRISING HAS BEEN PLANNED BY THE SKLP FOR FEBRUARY ONE NINE FOUR NINE PD THIS WILL BE IN CONJUNCTION WITH AN INVASION BY NORTH KOREAN ARMED FORCES PD PARA FIVE PD ON THREE ZERO NOVEMBER TAEGU PAREN ONE ONE FIVE SEVEN DASH ONE FOUR THREE NINE PAREN MIDDLE SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ATTEMPTED TO GO ON STRIKE PD PROMPT POLICE ACTION CMA ASSISTED BY RIGHTIST STUDENTS CMA RESTORED THE SITUATION BY THREE ZERO ONE FIVE ZERO ZERO NOVEMBER PD PAREN BAKER DASH TWO PAREN PARA SIX PD COMMUNIST VIOLENCE CMA INCLUDING ALL REPORTS EXCEPT THOSE FOR YOSU CMA TAEGU CMA NAJU AND KANGWON DO CMA TOTAL TWO ATTACKS ON TOWNS CMA ONE ATTACK ON POLICE CMA FIVE ZERO RIGHTIST KILLED CMA THREE ZERO COMMUNISTS KILLED PAREN ALL ON CHEJU DO PAREN CMA THREE ATTACKS ON RIGHTIST CMA TWO ACTS OF SABOTAGE CMA TWO LABOR STRIKES AND ONE SCHOOL STRIKE PD DELAYED REPORTS LIST ONE SIX SEVEN COMMUNISTS KILLED CMA AND TWO ATTACKS ON RIGHTISTS PD NO RIGHTIST DASH INSPIRED ACTS OF VIOLENCE WERE REPORTED PD THREE INDIVIDUALS WERE ATTACKED BY PERSONS OF UNKNOWN POLITICAL AFFILIATION DURING THE PERIOD AND ABLE DELAYED REPORT LISST ONE SUCH ATTACK ON ONE EIGHT NOVEMBER PD SECRET DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET PARA SABOTAGE AND ESPIONAGE CLN ON THREE ZERO NOVEMBER ABLE KOREAN COMMUNICATION CABLE WAS CUT BY UNKNOWN PERSONS NEAR PAREN NINE SEVEN DASH ONE SIX THREE FIVE PAREN PD PAREN ABLE DASH ONE PAREN PD PARA PSYCHOLOGICAL CLN ONE PD REPORTERS FROM TWO DIFFERENT KOREAN NEWSPAPERS INFORMED AMERICAN OFFICIALS THAT CERTAIN QTE DIRECTIVES UNQTE HAD BEEN ISSUED TO ALL KOREAN NEWSPAPERS BY THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION OF THE KOREAN GOVERNMENT PD THESE ALLEGED QTE DIRECTIVES UNQTE ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE ORIGINATED IN THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ON PROPAGANDA PAREN WEEKA NUMBER FOUR EIGHT PAREN AND ARE INTENDED AS ABLE GUIDE IN HANDLING CERTAIN NEWS ITEMS PD THEY INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING CLN PAREN ABLE PAREN THE GOVERNMENT IN NORTH KOREA SHOULD BE REFERRED TO AS QTE THE NORTH KOREAN PUPPET REGIME PD UNQTE PAREN BAKER PAREN EXPRESSIONS OF PROTOCOL SHOULD NOT BE USED IN REFERENCE TO KIM IL SUNG AND OTHER LEADERS OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THE NORTH PD PAREN CHARLIE PAREN NEWSPAPERS SHOULD NOT REPORT NEWS OR SPECULATION REGARDING WITHDRAWAL OF UNCLE SUGAR FORCES SMCLN NO NEWS OR COMMENTS AGITATING AGAINST PROLONGED OCCUPATION SHOULD BE PRINTED PD PAREN DOG PAREN COMMENTS CONDONING THE ACTIONS OF REBEL UNITS OR EXPRESSIONS OR SYMPATHY TOWARD REBEL ACTIVITIES OF ANY KIND SHOULD BE PROHIBITED PD PAREN EASY PAREN EXPRESSIONS CONNOTING THAT THE ATTRITION IN THE SOUTH IS QTE MUTUAL SLAUGHTER OF RACE UNQTE SHOULD BE AVOIDED BECAUSE IT TENDS TO CONVEY THE IDEA OF EQUALITY BETWEEN THE REBELS AND THE NATIONAL ARMY PAREN FOX PAREN WRITERS SHOULD NOT USE STATEMENTS OF SLANDER AND ABUSE, WHICH ARE OF NO DIRECT ADVANTAGE TO THE NATION AND SOCIETY PD SECRET DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 9 16 SECRET COMMENT CLN IT IS PROBABLE THAT THE KOREAN QTE MAN IN THE STREET CMA UNQTE TO WHOM WITHDRAWAL HAS BEEN PREACHED FOR THREE YEARS CMA IS NOT YET SOLD ON THE GOVERNMENTS TWO DASH WEEKS OLD CAMPAIGN FOR CONTINUED OCCUPATION UNTIL THE SECURITY OF KOREA IS ASSURED PD EVEN AM NG THOSE WHO ARE MOST XEX STRONGLY ADVOCATING CONTINUED OCCUPATION THERE IS UNDOUBTEDLY ABLE MENTAL TUG DASH OF WAR ABLE BETWEEN X REALISTIC REALIZATION OF THE NECESSITY FOR SUCH OCCUPATION AND THE WISHFUL DESIRE FOR QTE SELF DASH DETERMINATION PD UNQTE THOUGH SUCH LEAFLETS AND HANDBILLS AS HAVE APPEARED OPPOSING CONTINUED OCCUPATION HAVE BEEN BRANDED QTE LEFTIST QTE BY THE KOREAN GOVERNMENT CMA IT IS NOT CERTAIN THAT THE MODERATES ARE [illegible] NOT ALSO INVOLVED PD PARA TWO PD THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY QUESTIONED THE MINISTER OF PUBLIC INFORMATION CONCERNING SUPPRESSION OF THE PRESS DURING THE PERIOD CMA BUT NO CONCRETE DEVELOPMENTS HAVE YET EVOLVED PD SECRET DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 10 18 SECRET WEEKA#49 PART TWO PD NORTH KOREA PD PARA CURRENT PARA ONE PD AN AMERICAN SOURCE RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION FROM A RAILROAD CONDUCTOR IN NORTH KOREA CLN PARA ALL OF ONE SET OF TRACKS ON THE DOUBLE DASH TRACKED SEOUL DASH PYONGYANG RAIL LINE WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE THREE EIGHT PARALLEL TO PYONGYANG PD THE SOURCE STATED THAT THE RAILS AND TIES WERE BEING SENT TO THE NORTH PD HE DID NOT KNOW THE DESTINATION PD THE REASON FOR REMOVAL WAS THAT THEY WERE NO LONGER NEEDED PD PAREN ABLE DASH THREE PAREN COMMENT CLN IT WAS REPORTED PREVIOUSLY PAREN WEEKA FOUR SEVEN PAREN THAT THE RAIL LINES HAD BEEN REMOVED BETWEEN KUMCHON PAREN NINE FOUR ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN ONE ZERO PAREN AND NAMCHONJON PAREN NINE FOUR ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN THREE ZERO PAREN AND THAT RAILROAD TIES WERE CURRENTLY BEING REMOVED PD REMOVAL OF THE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED RAILS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED A NUMBER OF TIMES BUT THERE IS NO INDICATION OF THE INAUGURATION OF WORK ON OTHER SECTORS PD PARA TWO PD THE FOLLOWING RUMORS FROM NORTH KOREA INDICATE THE POSSIBILITY OF AN INVASION OF SOUTH KOREA BY PEOPLES ARMY FORCES CLN PARA ABLE PD IN KAESONG PAREN NINE SIX ZERO DASH TWO ZERO FIVE ZERO PAREN TWO OUT OF THREE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT IT IS MERELY A QUESTION OF TIME BEFORE NORTH KOREAN TROOPS WILL CROSS THE THREE EIGHT PARALLEL CMA INVADE AND EVENTUALLY CONQUER ALL OF SOUTH KOREA PD PAREN FOX DASH SIX PAREN PARA PD TWO FIVE ZERO PEOPLES ARMY TROOPS WILL COME TO SOUTH KOREA FROM HAEJU PAREN EIGHT SEVEN ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN ZERO ZERO PAREN AT THE BEGINNING OF DECEMBER PD PAREN FOX DASH SIX PAREN COMMENT CLN THESE MAY BE THE SAME TYPE OF FORCES WHICH PENETRATED INTO KANGWON DO EARLY IN NOVEMBER PAREN SEE SUBERSIVE UNDER SOUTH KOREA THIS WEEKA PAREN PD PARA CHARLIE PD THE NORTH KOREAN ARMY CONTINUES TO TRAIN INTENSIVELY WITH ABOUT FOUR ZERO ZERO ZERO TROOPS BEING STATIONED ALONG THE THREE EIGHT PARALLEL CMA PARTICULARLY AROUND CHORWON PAREN DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET PAGE 11 of 16 SECRET ONE ZERO TWO ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN TWO FIVE PAREN AND RAJU PAREN EIGHT SEVEN ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN ZERO THREE PAREN PD THE EIGHT ROUTE ARMY IS COMPOSED MAINLY OF THE EXTREMISTS OF THE KIM IL SUNG GOVERNMENT CMA WHOSE MAIN DESIRE IS TO OVERTHROW THE PRESENT SOUTH KOREAN REGIME OF SYNGMAN RHEE PD PAREN FOX DASH SIX PAREN PARA MILITARY PARA SOVIET FORCES PARA ONE PD DURING PERIOD TWO NIGHT THROUGH THREE ZERO OCTOBER ONE ZERO ZERO ZERO SOVIET TROOPS WERE OBSERVED OCCUPYING TWO THREE WOODEN BARRACKS AND SEVEN TENTS IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF AOJI DASH DONG PAREN ONE THREE ZERO ZERO DASH TWO TWO FIVE ZERO PAREN PD THESE TROOPS REPORTEDLY ARRIVED ON THE ONE NINE OF OCTOBER WITH SIX SUGAR UNCLE DASH TWO FOUR NINE AND THREE ZERO SUGAR UNCLE DASH SEVEN SIX PD PAREN FOX DASH THREE PAREN COMMENT CLN THE FIRST CONCRETE INDICATION THAT SOVIET ARMOR WAS BEING WITHDRAWN WAS CONTAINED IN ABLE REPORT THAT SIX SELFPROPELLED WEAPONS CMA EITHER SUGAR UNCLE DASH EIGHT FIVE OR ONE TWO TWO CMA HAD BEEN OBSERVED ON ONE NINE OCTOBER DEPARTING FROM THE PYONGYANG AREA PAREN SEE WEEKA FOUR SIX PAREN PD THE ABOVE REPORT CMA IF TRUE CMA INDICATES GREATER MOVEMENT OF SUCH EQUIPMENT FROM NORTH KOREA PD PARA UNCONFIRMED REPORTS INDICATED POSSIBLE CONSTRUCTION OF BARRACKS AND FORMATION OF ABLE SOVIET TROOP DEPOT AT AOJI DASH DONG FOR TROOPS IN TRANSIT TO THE MARITIME PROVINCE PD FOR ROUTE OF WITHDRAWAL SEE WEEKA FOUR FOUR PD PARA NORTH KOREAN FORCES PARA ONE PD UNCONFIRMED REPORTS AS OF ONE EIGHT AND TWO ONE NOVEMBER PLACE AN UNIDENTIFIED RIFLE REGIMENT AT SARIWON PAREN EIGHT EIGHT ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN FIVE ZERO PAREN AND AN UNIDENTIFIED ARTILLERY REGIMENT AT NAMCHONJOM PAREN NINE FOUR ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN THREE ZERO PAREN PD THESE UNITS ARE REPORTEDLY SUBORDINATED TO ABLE DIVISION AT PYONGYANG PAREN EIGHT EIGHT ZERO DASH ONE EIGHT TWO ZERO PAREN PD PAREN FOX DASH SIX PAREN COMMENT CLN ALTHOUGH UNCONFIRMED THE ABOVE REPORTS ARE NOT DISCOUNTED PD IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THESE UNITS ARE REGIMENTS OF THE FIRST DIVISION WHOSE YANG HEADQUARTERS REPORTEDLY PAREN UNCONFIRMED PAREN MOVED TO PYONG PAREN SEE WEEKA FOUR DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET Page 120/16 SECRET EIGHT PAREN PD THE THREE RIFLE REGIMENT OF THE FIRST DIVISION IS BELIEVED TO BE LOCATED IN CHAERYONG PAREN EIGHT SIX ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN FOUR ZERO PAREN PD PARA SEE WEEKA FOUR FIVE PAREN PARA TWO PD ADDITIONAL VERIFICATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ABLE PEOPLES ARMY TRAINING CENTER IN THE FORMER INSTALLATIONS OF THE INDEPENDENT BRIGADE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN THE MASA DASH RI AREA OF CHINNAMPO WERE RECEIVED RECENTLY FROM FOX REFUGEE SOURCES PD PAREN DASH TWO PAREN COMMENT CLN IN SPITE OF DISCREPANCIES IN VARIOUS DETAILS IN CURRENT AND PREVIOUS REPORTS PAREN SEE WEEKA FOUR SEVEN PAREN PARTICULARLY IN ESTIMATES OF STRENGTH CMA SUFFICIENT CONFIRMING INFORMATION HAS BEEN RECEIVED TO ACCEPT THE PRESENCE OF ABLE TRAINING CENTER IN THE FORMER MITSUBISHI MAGNESIUM FACTORY IN CHINNAMPO PD THE REPORTED ABSENCE OF INDIVIDUAL ARMS AND OTHER FORMS OF EQUIPMENT INCLUDING VEHICLES MAY BE AN INDICATION THAT THE INSTALLATION HAD NOT BEEN FULLY EQUIPPED AS OF THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER OR WAS BEING UTILIZED CHIEFLY AS AN INDUCTION STATION PD NO INDICATIONS OF DEPARTURES OF PERSONNEL FOR ASSIGNMENT TO EXISTING UNITS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED PD PARA THREE PD THE NUMBERS OF KNOWN DESERTERS FROM NORTH KOREAN ARMED FORCES FROM ONE THROUGH TWO SEVEN NOVEMBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT TOTAL DASH PEOPLES ARMY THREE CMA SECURITY FORCES FOUR PD PAREN BAKER DASH TWO PAREN COMMENT CLN A GRADUAL DECLINE IN THE NUMBERS OF DESERTERS FROM NORTH KOREA HAS BEEN EVIDENT SINCE JULY ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT PD SPECIFIC REASONS FOR THIS DECLINE HAVE NOT BEEN INDICATED PD PAREN SEE WEEKA FOUR SIX PAREN PARA MOBILIZATION POTENTIAL PARA ONE PD A REFUGEE CMA WHO HAD SERVED AS ABLE PHYSICIAN IN ABLE NUMBER OF NORTH KOREAN HOSPITALS CMA HAD THE FOLLOWING REPORT TO MAKE ON PUBLIC HEALTH IN NORTH KOREA CLN PARA THERE WAS AN OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID FEVER IN CHINNAMPO PAREN EIGHT FOUR ZERO DASH ONE SEVEN EIGHT ZERO PAREN WHICH STARTED IN JANUARY ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT AND CONTINUED IN EPIDEMIC FORM UNTIL JUNE ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT PD THERE WAS AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT TWO ZERO CASES ABLE MONTH THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD AND THE DEATH RATE AVERAGED APPROXIMATELY TEN PERCENT PD PARA THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF CHINNAMPO WAS INOCULATED IN AUGUST ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT AGAINST SMALL POX CMA TYPHOID DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 94750D SECRET Page 13 of 16 SECRET FEVER AND CHOLERA PD GENERAL HEALTH CONDITIONS IN NORTH KOREA ARE POOR CMA DUE TO IGNORANCE AND TO LACK OF SANITATION CMA MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND PROPER DIET PD ABOUT THREE ZERO PERCENT OF THE MEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF TWO ZERO AND THREE TWO HAVE VENEREAL DISEASES PD TREATMENT OF THE CASES IS DIFFICULT DUE TO THE LACK OF DRUGS AND THE PROPER METHODS OF TREATMENT SHCLM CONSEQUENTLY VERY FEW CASES ARE CURED PD PAREN FOX DASH THREE PAREN COMMENT CLM THE DOCTORS STATEMENT WOULD INDICATE THAT THE MANPOWER OF NORTH KOREA HAS STILL ANOTHER LIMITING FACTOR CMA PUBLIC HEALTH PD ABLE REPORT PUBLISHED IN WREAK FOUR ONE REVEALED THAT SOME LABOR SHORTAGE WAS BEING EXPERIENCED IN NORTH KOREA CMA AT WHICH TIME IT WAS COMMENTED THAT SERVICE IN THE ARMED FORCES CMA CONSCRIPTED LABOR CMA IMPRISONMENTS AND THE FLIGHT OF REFUGEES TO THE SOUTH HAD DRAINED MUCH OF THE AVAILABLE LABOR SUPPLY PD IF THREE ZERO PERCENT OF THE MEN BETWEEN THE AGES OF TWO ZERO AND THREE TWO ARE INFECTED WITH ABLE VENEREAL DISEASE THIS REPORT IS FURTHER EVIDENCE OF AN ADDITIONAL REASON FOR LABOR SHORTAGES PD PARA TWO PD RICE PRICES REPORTED FROM TWO NORTH KOREAN TOWNS BY TWO ONE SOURCES AVERAGE TWO SEVEN FIVE WON PER SMALL MAL PAREN TWO PD THREE EIGHT GALLONS PAREN PD PARA THE NORTH KOREAN WON CONTINUES TO BE TRADED WITH THE SOUTH KOREAN WON ON THE BASIS OF ONE NORTH KOREAN WON TO THREE SOUTH KOREAN WON PD PARA PSYCHOLOGICAL PARA ONE PD RADIO PYONGYANG USED ITS USUAL FORMULA IN THE TREATMENT OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAD PASSED ABLE RESOLUTION ASKING AMERICAN TROOPS TO STAY IN SOUTH KOREA PD THE QTR COMMENTARY COMMITTEE UNQTE BITTERLY DENOUNCED THE ASSEMBLY PD PATRIOTIC CMA SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS PASSED RESOLUTIONS DENOUNCING THE AMERICANS AND SOUTH KOREAN TRAITORS CMA AND WORKERS OF ALL INDUSTRIAL PLANTS PLEDGED THEIR EFFORTS FOR INCREASED PRODUCTION TO DEFEAT PLANS OF THE QTECOLONIZING AMERICANS AND THE SO DASH CALLED SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT PD UNQTE PARA SEVERAL BROADCASTS WERE DEVOTED TO RECENT EXECUTIONS OF COMMUNIST MUTINEERS AND REBELS PD ONE DEMONSTRATED THAT RADIO PYONGYANG RETAINS ITS GIFT FOR DISTORTION PD FIVE SOUTH KOREAN LABOR PARTY REBELS WERE EXECUTED AT CHONQUP **DECLASSIFIED** Authority NND 947500 SECRET Page 1 [illegible] 16 SECRET PAREN NINE FOUR ZERO DASH ONE FOUR ZERO ZERO PAREN ON ONE FOUR NOVEMBER ONE NINE FOUR EIGHT PAREN PETER BLANK ROGER NINE NINE EIGHT PAREN ON THE GROUNDS OF THE AGRICULTURE SCHOOL PD RADIO PYONGYANG BROADCAST ITS VERSION AS FOLLOWS CLN QTE WE KNOW FOR ABLE FACT THAT THEY HAVE SHOT TO DEATH INNOCENT BOYS IN ABLE MIDDLE SHCOOLS PD THE ANGER OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE WAS BOILED BY THIS FACT PD THERE HAS NEVER BEEN SUCH OCCURRING IN THE HISTORY OF KOREA PD THE VIOLENT FIGHTING OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE AGAINST THE EVIL TRAITORS SHOWS THAT ANYBODY WHO HAS NATIONAL SPIRIT WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO SIT BACK AND DO NOTHING ABOUT SUCH AN INCIDENT PD UNQTE COMMENT CLN RADIO PYONGYANGS INDIGNATION AT THE EXECUTION OF REBELS IS IN MARKED CONTRAST TO ITS APPROBATION OF THE DEATH SENTENCES ANNOUNCED BY THE QTE PEOPLES COURT UNQTE DURING THE YOSU REBELLION PD RADIO PYONGYANG CONTINUES TO POINT TO THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN DASH KOREAN RELATIONS PD IN ABLE REVIEW OF THE BOOK ROOSEVELT AND THE RUSSO DASH JAPANESE WAR CMA WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK IN ONE NINE TWO FIVE CMA THE COMMENTATOR STATED THAT THE UNITED STATES HAD BEEN ATTEMPTING TO BUILD ABLE NAVAL BASE IN KOREA SINCE ONE EIGHT SIX NINE PD AT THE SAME TIME THE UNITED STATES ATTEMPTED TO NEGOTIATE ABLE COMMERCIAL TREATY TO PLUNDER KOREA PD PARA DURING THE PERIOD RADIO PYONGYANG AGAIN INDICATED SENSITIVENESS TO SOUTH KOREAN PROPAGANDA WHEN IT BROADCAST THE STATEMENT OF THE PRIVATE WHO FLEW TO NORTH KOREA IN AN LOVE DASH FOUR ON ONE NIGHT NOVEMBER PD SAID THE PRIVATE CMA QTE ITEM AM PARK HUN YONG CMA SECOND LIEUTENANT OF THE SO DASH CALLED SOUTH KOREAN ARMY AIR FORCE CMA WHO FLEW IN A PLANE FROM SEOUL TO THE NORTH ON NOVEMBER ONE EIGHT PD WITHIN THE SOUTH KOREAN NATIONAL ARMY CMA OPPOSITION IS GROWING AGAINST AMERICAN IMPERIALISTS AND THE SOUTH KOREAN REACTIONARIES AND ITEM FLED IN MY PLANE TO THE NORTH IN OPPOSITION TO THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT PD UNQTE PARA QTE HERE ITEM AM TO EXPOSE THE FALSEHOOD OF THE SOUTH KOREAN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT ITEM WOULD BE SHOT TO DEATH IMMEDIATELY ITEM LANDED IN PYONGYANG PD WELL CMA ITEM AM ALIVE AND SPEAKING OVER THE RADIO PD UNQTE PARA ABLE POSSIBLE INDICATION OF POLICY AND PLANS OF THE NORTH KOREA DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 SECRET Page 150716 SECRET PUPPETS MAY BE SEEN IN THE FOLLOWING BROADCAST PD PARA QTE ALL THAT HAS BEEN DONE BY THE SOUTH KOREAN TRAITORS LATELY WILL HASTEN THEIR OWN RUIN PD THEY HAVE MADE SO MANY AGREEMENTS WITH THE AMERICAN IMPERIALISTS AND HAVE AT LAST AGREED TO THE INDEFINITE STAY OF THE AMERICAN TROOPS IN SOUTH KOREA PD PARA QTE DURING THE THREE YEARS AFTER THE LIBERATION CMA THE ONLY CAUSE FOR THE DELAY OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN THE OCCUPATION OF THE AMERICAN FORCES PD WE WILL OBTAIN OUR INDEPENDENCE AS SOON AS THE AMERICAN TROOPS LEAVE KOREA PD UNQTE J. F. ERBE CWO USA ASST ADJ GEN 040500/E SECRET ZGBI 2009 DECLASSIFIED Authority NND 947500 Page 6 of 16