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The original documents are located in Box 10, folder "Korea - North Korean Tree Incident,
8/18/76 - Telegrams (2)" of the Presidential Country Files for East Asia and the Pacific,
1974-77 at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
Copyright Notice
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Digitized from Box 10 of Presidential Country Files for East Asia and the Pacific, 1974-77 at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
Presidential Libraries Withdrawal Sheet
WITHDRAWAL ID 05861
REASON FOR WITHDRAWAL
National security restriction
TYPE OF MATERIAL
Telegram
CREATOR'S NAME
CINCUNC Seoul
RECEIVER'S NAME
Joint Chiefs of Staff
TITLE
Meeting with President Park
DESCRIPTION
re Panmunjom Incident
CREATION DATE
08/19/1976
VOLUME
3 pages
COLLECTION/SERIES/FOLDER ID
027500065
COLLECTION TITLE
HENRY A. KISSINGER AND BRENT SCOWCROFT
PARALLEL FILE OF DOCUMENTS OPENED FROM
UNPROCESSED COLLECTIONS (National
Security Council)
BOX NUMBER
Al
FOLDER TITLE
Korea - North Korean Tree Incident,
8/18/76 - Telegrams (1)-(3)
DATE WITHDRAWN
09/30/1993
WITHDRAWING ARCHIVIST
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CNFK CHINHAE
I CORPS (ROK/US) GP UIJONGBU
SECRET
SUBJECT: MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PARK,
1. PER INSTRUCTIONS OF THE ACTING CJCS, AS RELAYED TELEPHONICALLY
BY LTG SITTON, I MET MND SUM THIS MORNING: AND THEN PRO=
CEEDED TO A QUICKLY ARRANGED MEETING AT THE BLUE HOUSE.
2. AT THE MEETING WITH MINISTER SUH, I STATED THAT I WAS UNDER
INSTRUCTIONS TO MOVE THE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND
THAT I HAD TOLD WASHINGTON THAT I WAS CONFIDENT THAT THE MND
WOULD ENDORSE THAT ACTION; AND THAT THE FIRST PURPOSE OF THIS
MEETING WAS TO CONFIRM THAT's SUM AGREED AND WE SET 1902002
I ALSO REPORTED
TO HIM THAT AN F4 SQUADRON WOULD BEGIN DEPLOYMENT FROM OKINAWA
IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. FINALLY, I TOLD HIM THAT WE WERE DEVELOPING
A PLAN TO COMPLETE THE TREE OPERATION,
3' MND SUH, GENERAL ROE THE ROK CJCS) AND I THEN PROCEEDED TO
THE BLUE HOUSE, MND STARTED OFF BY SUMMARIZING FOR THE PRESI-
DENT THE KEY ASPECTS OF OUR EARLIER DISCUSSION, NOTABLY INCLUDING
THE COORDINATED
AND THE F4 DEPLOYMENT.
4. PRESIDENT PARK=CALM, DELIBERATE AND POSITIVE THROUGHOUT.
STARTED OFF WITH FOLLOWING COMMENTS:
A. FIRST EXPRESSION OF HIS DEEP PERSONAL CONCERN ABOUT AN
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
INCIDENT WHICH HE FOUND "BEYOND HUMAN REASON", AND TRANSMITTAL
OF HIS HEARTFELL CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF THE TWO OFFICERS
CONCERNED,
B. CONVICTION THAT THE SITUATION WAS SUFFICIENTLY GRAVE TO
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DEMAND MORE THAN PROTEST FOR, IF REACTION SO LIMITED, MORE
SERIOUS INCIDENTS WOULD LIKELY OCCUR IN THE FUTURE.
C. VIEW THAT
AND DEPLOYMENT OF THE
F4 SQUADRON WERE APPROPRIATE.
D. BELIEF THAT ONE NEEDED TO PROCEED ON TWO TRACKS:
(1) ISSUANCE OF THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE PROTEST TO INCLUDE
DEMAND FOR APOLOGY, FOR REPARATION, AND FOR GUARANTEE OF NON-
RECURRENCE- ALL WITH THE RECOGNITION THAT THE COMMUNISTS ARE NOT
LIKELY TO BE FORTHCOMING.
(2) DELIBERATE DEVELOPMENT OF APPROPRIATE COUNTERACTION,
EMPHASIZING THAT "WE DO NOT WANT TO PLAY INTO THEIR HANDS". HE
SAID THAT WE SHOULD TEACH THE NORTH KOREANS A LESSON: AND SHOULD
DO so WITHOUT USE OF ARMS (A POINT WHICH HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY TO
RE=EMPHASIZE), HERE, I CONJECTURE THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS
REFERRING TO THE OVERALL DISPOSITION AND PROCEDURES LONG IN EFFECT
AT PANMUNJOM, WHICH THE ROKS BELIEVE OPERATE TO OUR DISADVANTAGE.
5', I TOLD PRESIDENT THAT, FROM WHAT I COULD GLEAN, THE USG FELT
VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THE INCIDENT AND THAT ITS VIEWS ON COUTERMEASURES
GENERALLY PARALLELED HIS, THERE WOULD MOST CERTAINLY BE A STRONG
PROTEST LODGED, IN THE FIRST INSTANCE, BY ME THROUGH MAC. IT WAS
DISTINCTLY POSSIBLE THAT MORE AUTHORITATIVE CHANNELS WOULD ALSO BE
USED. SECOND, THERE WERE THE MEASURES BOTH TO AUGMENT AND HEIGHTERN
THE READINESS OF FORCES THAT MND SUH HAD ALREADY MENTIONED, IM
ADDED THAT ADDITIONAL MEASURES OF THIS TYPE MIGHT WELL BE UNDER
CONSIDERATION, THE PRESIDENT: INTERJECTED TO SAY THAT A SHOW OF
FORCE, BY ITSELF HOULD NOT IMPRESS THE NORTH, AND MADE PASSING
REFERENCE TO THE FACT THAT DEPLOYMENTS AFTER THE PUEBLO INCIDENT
DID NOT PREVENT THE DOWNING OF THE EC=121, I CONTINUED THAT A
THIRD ACTION WHICH I FELT TO BE ESSENTIALSWAS TO COMPLETE THE TREE
OPERATION, FOR REASONS BOTH OF PRICIPAL AND PRACTICAL SECURITY.
6: PICKING UP HIS LAST POINT, THE PRESIDENT AGREED THAT THE TREE
PROBLEM SHOULD BE DEALT WITH, THE NORTH KOREANS MIGHT NOT INTER-
FERE BUT WE HAD 70 BE FULLY PREPARED FOR THE MORE LIKELY CONTINGENCY
THAT THEY WOULD, IF THEY DIDs IT WAS ESSENTIAL THAT THEY COME OUT
R.
FORD
SECOND BEST, IN HIS ESTIMATE: THE BEST WAY TO INSURE THE SUCCESS
OF THE OPERATION WAS TO HAVE AVAILABLE, FOR USE AS NEEDED, ADEQUATE
PERSONNEL HIGHLY SKILLED IN THE "MARTIAL ARTS" BY WHICH HE MEANT
GERALD
LIBRARY
TAEKWONDO: TO THAT END HE WAS PREPARED TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO ME
50 OR MORE MULTIPLE BLACK BELT HOLDERS FROM THE ROK SPECIAL FORCES
FOR INTEGRATION INTO MY FORCES AS KATUSA. I THANKED HIM FOR HIS
OFFER AND TOLD HIM I WOULD TAKE IT INTO CONSIDERATION IN DEVELOPMENT
OF THE PLAN WHICH I EXPECTED TO SUBMIT TO MY JCS WITHIN THE NEXT 24
HOURS: WHEN I MENTIONED THAT IF THE OPERATION WERE SWIFTLY MOUNTED,
THE KPA MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO REACT IN TIME TO INTERFERE, THE PRESI-
DENT OPINED THAT IT MIGHT BE BETTER TO PROCEED MORE DELIBERATELY IN
ORDER TO INSURE KPA REACTION AND A RESULANT SOUND THRASHING-TO
BE ADMINISTERED, HE AGAIN EMPHASIZED WITHOUT FIRE ARMS, THE MEETING
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MCNA: KPA AIR FORCE MEN IN BAT POSTURE
CW201627 PYONGYANG KCNA IN ENGLISH 1620 GMT 20 AUG 76 ow
(TEXT) PYONGYANG, AUGUST 20, (KCNA)--TODAY IS AIR FORCE DAY.
OUR AIR FORRCE FIGHTERS, SIGNIFICANTLY MEETING THE AIR FORCE
DAY INSTITUTED BY THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL-SONG,
RETROSPECT WITH A DEEP EMOTION THE PROUD FEATS PERFORMED
BY OUR GALLANT AIRMEN IN THE DAYS OF THE HARD-FOUGHT FATHERLAND
IBERATION WAS (JUNE 1950-JULY 1933) TO HUMBLE THE PRIDE
OF ARROGANT U.S. IMPERIALISM AND DEFEND THE IR SPACE OF THE
COUNTRY, AND ARE STEADILY INCREASING THEIR COMBAT CAPACITY
IN VIEW OF THE PREVAILING SITUATION.
IN THE GRIM DAYS OF THE WAR THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE AIR
FORCE OF THE HEROIC MOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY DEALT 4 CRUSHING BLOW TO
THE U.S. IMPERIALIST AIR PIRATES, GREATLY CONTRIBUTING
TO THE VICTORY OF THE WAR.
AFTER THEY UNLEASHED THE KOREAN WAR, THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS
IMMEDIATELY MOBILIZED "B-29S" WHICH THEY BOASIFULLY CALLED AN
" IMPREGNABLE FLYING FORTRESS" IN A FOOLISH ATTEMPT TO INTIMIDATE
OUR PEOPLE.
ONE DAY IN LATE JUNE 1950, A FORMATION OF PURSUIT PLANES OF
OUR AIR FORCE WHICH WAS COVERING OUR GROUND MAIN FORCE UNIT
ENCOUNTERED WITH THE ENEMY'S "B-29S" IN THE SKY ABOVE SEOUL.
SEEING THE U.S. IMPERIALIST AIR PIRATES, OUR PILOTS YI HUNG-PU
AND YI MUN-SUN, BURNING WITH A HATRED FOR THEM, TIGHTLY GRIPPED THE
CONTROL STICK.
THE ENEMY OPENED BLIND, THREATENING FIRE. BUT OUR PLANES SWIFTLY
TOOK B TACTICALLY FAVOURABLE POSITION OF ATTACK TO PURSUE THE ENEMY.
THE ENEMY'S "B-29S", HIT BY STRAIGHT SHOTS OF OUR PURSUIT PLANES,
VEERED TO THE SOUTH TO TAKE TO FLIGHT. OUR BRAVE PILOTS PURSUED
THE ENEMY AND FIRED AT A "B-29" WITHIN THE EFFECTIVE RANGE AND SMASHED
IT.
AFTER THAT OUR GALLANT FALCONS SHOT DOWN ALL "B-29S" THEY
ENCOUNTERED WITH. PILOTS YI HUNG-PU, YI MUN-SUN AND YI TONG-KYU
SHOT DOWN SCORES OF ENEMY PLANES INCLUDING "B-29S" IN THE FIRST
MONTH OF THE WAR.
OUR AIRMEN, THEIR HEARTS BURNING WITH LOYALTY, DEVOTED THEIR
" TO THE HEROIC FIGHT FOR THE GREAT LEADER AND THUS SHATTERED
TO SMITHEREE'S THE MYTH ABCUT "AIP SUPREMACY" AND "MIGHTINESS" OF
THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS AND PERFORMED BRILLIANG FEATS IN THE
SACRED WAR TO DEFEND THE INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM OF THE COUNTRY.
TODAY OUR AIR FORCE HAS BECOME A ONE-BEATS-A-HUNDRED
REVO' UTIONARY ARMED FORCE UNDER THE WISE LEADERSHIP AND DEEP
CARE OF THE GREAT LEADER COMRADE KIM IL-SONG.
OUR AIR FORCE SMASHED AT n BLOW THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS
ARGE-SIZE RECONNAISSANCE PLANE "RB-47", LARGE-SIZE SPY PLANE "EC-121"
AND OTHER U.S. PIRATE PLANES WHEN THEY ILLEGALLY INTRUDED INTO THE
TERRITORIAL AIR OF OUR COUNTRY. THE MIGHT OF OUR PEOPLE'S AIR
FORCE IS GROWING STRONGER WITH EACH PASSING DAY.
THE OFFICERS AND ME! OF THE AIR FORCE OF THE KOREAN
PEOPLE'S ARMY WHO ARE SIGNIFICANTLY MARKING AIR FORCE DAY, THEIR
RED-LEITER DAY, HAVE PLACED THEMSELVES IN FULL COMBAT POSTURE IN
GERALD A. FORD LIBRARY
VIEW OF THE PREVAILING SITUATION AND ARE SHARPLY WATCHING EVERY MC VE
THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY.
OF THE ENEMY, ACTING UPON THE ORDER OF COMRADE SUPREME COMMANDER OF
OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE AIR FORCE OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY WILL
IF THE U.S. IMPERIALIST AGGRESSORS DARE IGNITE , WAR, THe
VIHILATE THE ENEMY, RELIABLY DEFENDING THE AIR SPACE OF THE COUNTRY.
722 SGG/SA.I'''
UP-013
(KOREA)
HyLand,LL
WASHINGTON (UPI)--MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE DENOUNCING NORTH KOREA'S
KILLING OF TWO U.S. OFFICERS IN THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE BUT OPPOSE
GOING TO WAR OVER THE INCIDENT.
SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER HUGH SCOTT SAID THE "UNITED STATES SHOULD
INSIST ON CONDEMNATION OF NORTH KOREAN BARBARISM THROUGH PROPER
DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS.
"WE SHOULD MAKE CLEAR WE ARE PREPARED TO DEFEND OURSELVES ALONG
THE BORDER, AND MAKE SURE THE NEXT TIME IT IS NOT AMERICANS WHO GET
KILLED IN A BORDER FORAY," SCOTT SAID. "PROPER SECURITY DOESN'T
REQUIRE U.S. TROOPS."
SEN. WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY, D-MAINE, URGED SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY
KISSINGER TO WORK THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS TO RESOLVE THE MATTER.
"THE UNITED STATES SHOULD NOT RETALIATE WITH BULLETS, BUT INSTEAD
WITH URGENT REQUESTS TO THE GOVERNMENTS OF NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA FOR
NEW NEGOTIATIONS ON THEIR DIFFERENCES," SAID HATHAWAY.
SEN. CHARLES PERCY, R-ILL., SAID THAT "IT"S UP TO SOUTH KOREA,
WHICH HAS A MASSIVE MILITARY FORCE OF 600,000 THAT HAS BEEN EQUIPPED
BY THE UNITED STATES, TO PROVIDE ABSOLUTE SECURITY FOR OUR FORCES,
WHICH ARE SYMBOLIC IN NATURE."
SEN. HIRAM FONG, R-HAWAII, SAID HE BELIEVED THE SENDING OF
ADDITIONAL U.S. WARPLANES INTO SOUTH KOREA WAS A SUFFICIENT AND
PRUDENT RESPONSE.
"IT SEEMS THE NORTH KOREANS ARE TESTING US TO SEE WHOT OUR
DETERMINATION IS AND WHAT OUR POLICY TOWARD SOUTH KOREA IS. WE HAVE
TO TAKE 4 FIRM STAND OR THEY WILL MOVE," HE SAID. "EVERYTHING THEY DO
INDICATES THEY STILL WANT TO INVADE THE SOUTH."
SEN. STROM THURMOND, R-S.C., NORMALLY CONSIDERED A MILITARY
HARD-LINER, SAID THE ISSUE SHOULD BE PURSUED IN THE U.N. 4ND THROUGH
OTHER CHANNELS TO GET A CONDEMNATION OF THE NORTH KOPEAN ACTION.
"IT APPEARS IT WAS AN ACTION TAKEN TO PROVOKE A SITUATION AND GET
THE UNITED STATES INVOLVED," HE SAID.
SEN. JACOB K. JAVITS, R-N.Y., SAID THAT "ON SUCH A TENSE BORDER
INCIDENTS ARE TO BE EXPECTED."
"WE SHOULD REACT WITH VIGOR AND DEFINITENESS TO ASSURE THAT THE
FORCES OF THE U.S. ARE PROTECTED, BUT WE SHOULD NOT MAKE IT THE
OCCASION FOR A LARGE-SCALE OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE," JAVITS SAID.
REP. JOHN M. MURPHY, D-N.Y., A VETERAN OF THE KOREAN WAR, SAID
THAT WHEN CONGRESS RETURNS FROM RECESS MONDAY HE WILL ASK THE HOUSE
TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION CENSURING NORTH KOREA.
UPI 08-20 09:05 AED
FORD & LIBRARY QERALD
9:06 am 9:06
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OFFICERS - NIGHTLEAD AMERICAN
WASHINGTO AUG 20, REUTER - TWO AIR FORCE SQUADRONS FLEW
INTO SOUTH KOREA TODAY TO BOLSTER U.S. TROOPS ON INCREASED
ALERT STATUS FOLLOWING THE KILLING EARLIER THIS WEEK OF TWO
AMERICAN ARMY OFFICERS IN THE KOREAN DEMILITARIZED ZONE.
THE SQUADRONS -- F-4 SUPERSONIC FIGHTERS FROM OKINAWA AND
F-111 FIGHTER-BOMBERS FROM IDAHO -- WERE ORDERED TO KOREA AS A
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE AFTER THE OFFICERS WERE KILLED BY NORTH
KOREAN BORDER GUARDS AND NORTH KOREA PUT ITS MILITARY FORCES
ON FULL ALERT.
BOTH THE F-4S AND F-111S ARE CAPABLE OF CARRYING NUCLEAR
WEAPONS.
DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS SAID THEY DID NOT KNOW OF
PLANS TO SEND IN ANY ADDITIONAL U.S. UNITS TO BACK UP THE
41,000 TROOPS STATIONED IN SOUTH KOREA.
SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER, WHO SUMMONED TOP-LEVEL
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISERS TO WHITE HOUSE MEETINGS ON WEDNESDAY
NIGHT AND YESTERDAY MORNING TO DISCUSS THE SITUATION, WOULD NOT
SAY WHAT OTHER STEPS, IF ANY, THE UNITED STATES PLANNED.
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OFFICERS - NIGHTLEAD AMERICAN 2 WASHINGTON
DR. KISSINGER SAID ON NBC TELEVISION THIS MORNING: ""WE
CANNOT PERMIT THE PRINCIPLE TO BE ESTABLISHED THAT AMERICANS
CAN BE ASSAULTED WITH IMPUNITY...
ASKED WHAT THE UNITED STATES COULD DO, HE REPLIED: ""THE
STEPS DEPEND ON THE SATISFACTORY RESULTS TO OUR INQUIRIES. -- HE
DID NOT ELABORATE.
ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, A FEW HOURS AFTER THE TWO U.S. OFFICERS
WERE ATTACKED AND KILLED BY NORTH KOREAN GUARDS WIELDING AXES
AND PIKES, DR. KISSINGER DISCUSSED THE SITUATION WITH THE HEAD
OF THE CHINESE LIAISON OFFICE IN WASHINGTON.
A STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN WHO DISCLOSED THE MEETING
DECLINED COMMENT WHEN ASKED IF PEKING WERE BEING ASKED TO USE
ITS INFLUENCE WITH THE NORTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT.
DR. KISSINGER STAYED IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE SITUATION
FROM KANSAS CITY, WHERE HE FLEW YESTERDAY FOR LAST NIGHT"S
FINAL SESSION OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION WHICH CHOSE
PRESIDENT FORD AS ITS NOMINEE FOR THE NOVEMBER 2 ELECTION
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OFFICERS - NIGHTLEAD AMERICAN 3 WASHINGTON
HE PLANNED TO STAY IN KANSAS CITY UNTIL LATE THIS AFTERNOON
AND WAS NOT EXPECTED BACK IN WASHINGTON UNTIL EVENING.
DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD RUMSFELD WAS ALSO IN KANSAS CITY,
FLYING THERE FROM MICHIGAN AFTER A BRIEF REST FOLLOWING A MINOR
OPERATION LAST WEEK. HE WAS NOT EXPECTED BACK AT THE PENTAGON
UNTIL MONDAY.
OFFICIALS SAID NO FURTHER MEETINGS OF THE SPECIAL ACTION
GROUP OF THE WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL HAD BEEN
CALLED.
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CINCPAC IMMEDIATE
USMISSION USUN NEW YORK IMMEDIATE 1948
AMEMBASSY TOKYO IMMEDIATE 8602
AMEMBASSY MOSCOW IMMEDIATE 332
USLO PEKING IMMEDIATE 198
AMEMBASSY COLOMBO IMMEDIATE 111
AMEMBASSY TAIPEI IMMEDIATE 2598
0 N F X D E N T I A
LIMITED OFFICIAL USE SEOUL 6454
E.O. 116521 N/A
TAGS: MARR, MOPS, KS, KN
SUBJECT: MILITARY ARMISTICE COMMISSION MEETING AUGUST 19, 1976
1. 379TH MILITARY ARMISTICE COMMISSION (MAC) MEETING TOOK
PLACE AUGUST 19, 1976 FROM 1600 HOURS TO 1735 HOURS LOCAL TIME,
NO VIOLENCE OR INCIDENTS REPORTED AND ATMOSPHERE WAS NORMAL, NO
UNUSUAL DISPOSITIONS OF UN OR NORTH KOREAN/CHINESE PERSONNEL,
CPV SENIOR MEMBER WAS ABSENT,
2, UNC OPENED MEETING WITH STATEMENT AS PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED.
FOLLOWED WITH DETAILED ACCOUNT OF INCIDENT KEYED TO PHOTOGRAPHS OF
WHICH 13 WERE DISPLAYED,
3. NORTH KOREANS (KPA) RESPONDED BY CLAIMING U.N, CHARGES WERE
FORD
DISTORTIONS OF FACT, THAT THEY HAD SAID NOT TO CUT THE TREE,
&
THAT THEY HAD WAITED PATIENTLY, THAT UN FORCES COMMITTED
VIOLENT PROVOCATION, RESULTING IN INJURIES TO FIVE NORTH KOREAN
PERSONNEL. DISPLAYED PHOTOS OF FIVE SOLDIERS IN BANDAGES. ALSO
GERALD
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DISPLAYED AN AXE AND AXE MANDLES WHICH THEY CLAIMED HAD BEEN USED
AS WEAPONS BY UN PERSONNEL. ALSO CLAIMED UN SIDE HAD OUTNUMBERED
KPA,
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4, UN SIDE RESPONDED THAT PHOTOS INDICATED CLEARLY RELATIVE
NUMBERS AND WHICH SIDE WAS ARMED,
5. KPA CLAIMED THAT NUMBER OF PICTURES INDICATED INCIDENT
WAS PREMEDITATED BY UN SIDE, THEN COMMENCED LONG STATEMENT
ALLEGING NUMEROUS UN PROVOCATIONS, VIOLENCE, INTRODUCTION OF
ILLEGAL AIRCRAFT, MOVEMENT OF AIRCRAFT FROM OKINAWA TO KOREA.
6, UN SIDE REPEATED WE HAD CALLED MEETING TO DISCUSS MURDER
OF TWO UNC PERSONNEL, WOULD INVESTIGATE SPECIFIC CHARGES,
CONCLUDED WE HAD NOTHING FURTHER TO SAY,
7, NORTH KOREANS SAID us SHOULD STOP COMMITTING ILLEGAL
ACTS, AND STATED THEY HAD NOTHING FURTHER TO SAY,
8, UNC PRESENTED SUMMARY STATEMENT,, HIGHLIGHTING BRUTALITY
OF ATTACK. PROPOSED RECESS.
9, KPA REITERATED CHARGES AGAINST UN, CONCLUDED WITH
(CUSTOMARY) WARNING THAT WAR COULD BREAK OUT AT ANY TIME.
AGREED TO RECESS,
10. SECURITY OFFICERS' MEETING THAT BEGAN AT 1608 LASTED ABOUT
20 MINUTES, CONSISTING OF BRIEF STATEMENTS BY BOTH SIDES.
11. PRESS WELL REPRESENTED AT MEETING, WAS GIVEN COPIES OF
UN OPENING STATEMENT AND ALLOWED TO PHOTOGRAPH UNC ENLARGEMENTS
USED AT MEETING.
12, MEETING FOLLOWED EXPECTED PATTERN AND NORTH KOREAN
RESPONSES WERE LARGELY ROUTINE IN NATURE, APART FROM STATEMENTS
PERTAINING TO AUG, 18 INCIDENT.
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TAGS: PFOR, POPS, KS, KN, US, JA
SUBJECT: MIDWAY DEPLOYMENT
REF: (A) JCS 3144 DTG 1918597 AUG 76, (B) ARMSTRONG-
SHOESMITH TELECON
1. AS WE UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE, EMBASSY DESIRES TO INFORM
GOJ IN ADVANCE OF THE MIDWAY DEPLOYMENT AND TO AUTHORIZE
GOJ TO SAY, IF PRESSED, THAT GOJ WAS NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE,
WE ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT UNDER ROUTINE PRECEDURES, GOJ WOULD
BE NOTIFIED IN ADVANCE OF DEPARTURE OF TG 77.4, REGARDLESS
OF DESTINATION,
2, PRESS GUIDANCE FOR MIDWAY DEPLOYMENT PREPARED FOR USE
FORD & LIBRARY 936839
IN WASHINGTON IS AS FOLLOWS:
O. WE HAVE A REPORT THAT THE CARRIER MIDWAY AND SEVERAL
OTHER SHIPS HAVE DEPARTED YOKOSUKA FOR KOREA, IS THIS
TRUE?
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A. CAFTER THE FACT) A SEVENTH FLEET CARRIER TASK GROUP
HEADED BY USS MIDWAY HAS DEPARTED YOKOSUKA FOR AT SEA
OPERATIONS, WE WILL NOT DISCUSS OPERATIONAL DETAILS SUCH
AS DESTINATIONS,
3, UNLESS SITUATION CHANGES, THEREFORE, USG DOES NOT IN=
TEND TO CONFIRM THAT MIDWAY DEPLOYMENT IS RELATED TO KOREA
SITUATION, AND WE THEREFORE CANNOT AUTHORIZE GOJ TO SAY
ANYTHING WHICH MAKES THAT LINKAGE,
4. IF GOJ WOULD BE NOTIFIED OF MIDWAY DEPARTURE UNDER
ROUTINE PROCEDURES, SUCH NOTIFICATION CAN BE MADE IN THIS
INSTANCE, YOU ARE ALSO AUTHORIZED INFORM GOJ ON CONFIDEN-
TIAL BASIS THAT MIDWAY IS BEING DEPLOYED IN THE VICINITY
OF THE SOUTHERN APPROACHES TO KOREA STRAIT, HOWEVER, IF
GOJ LATER WISHES TO STATE PUBLICLY THAT IT WAS NOTIFIED
IN ADVANCE OF MIDWAY DEPARTURE, IT SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY
PUBLIC LINKAGE TO KOREA OR MENTION MIDWAY'S DESTINATION,
UNLESS EMBASSY HAS CONFIRMATION THAT USG SPOKESMAN HAS
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KADENA. ANY FURTHER DETAILS DESIRED AVAILABLE THROUGH
MILITARY CHANNELS.
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YOKOTA AND/OR IF THEY ARE INVOLVED IN KOREAN OPERATIONS,
YOU SHOULD SAY THAT KADENA AB, WHERE THEY ARE NORMALLY
BASED IS BEING ROUTINELY EVACUATED DUE TO TYPHOON CONDI-
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BLE ATTITUDE" OF NORTH KOREA TOWARD THE REUNIFICATION
PROBLEM.
UN ACTIVITIES
THE UN CORE GROUP THAT IS WORKING ON A UN RESOLUTION
AND EXPLANATORY MEMORANOUM FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
DEBATE ON KOREA HAS REACHED A CONSENSUS THAT WE SHOULD
GO AMEAD WITHOUT CHANGING THE AGREED TEXTS AND SUBMIT
THE DOCUMENTS TOMORROW AS ORIGINALLY PLANNED.
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SUBJECT: SITREP 2 AS OF 1800
PLANNED U.S. HILITARY MOVES
THE TREE CUTTING OPERATION IS NOW SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE
AT ABOUT 1800 HRS. EDT ON AUGUST 20, SIMULTANEOUS WITH THE
TREE CUTTING, A NUMBER OF B-52'S WILL ARRIVE OVER SOUTH
KOREA,
FORD
FIVE GROUPS OF FOUR F-111'S MILL BE ARRIVING IN THE ROK
AUGUST 20 BETWEEN 0225 AND 0425 EDT.
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THE MIDWAY CARRIER TASK GROUP HAS BEEN ORDERED TO SAIL AT
1700 EDT AUGUST 20 TO THE VICINITY OF THE SOUTHERN APPROACHES
TO THE KORKA STRAIT,
CHARGE STERN AND GENERAL STILLWELL WILL SEE PRESIDENT PARK
SHORTLY TO INFORM HIM IN DETAIL OF OUR PLANS FOR THE TREE,
THE B-52'S AND THE F-111'S.
STILLWELL'S PROPOSED PLAN
GENERAL STILLWELL'S PROPOSED PLAN FOR THE TREE SURGERY CALLS
FOR U.S. ENGINEERS, AUGMENTED BY 50-68 ROK TAEKWONDO
SPECIALISTS TO ENTER THE JSA AND FELL THE TREE WITH CHAIN
SAWS DR BY DEMOLITION. AT THE SAME TIME TWO "ILLEGAL"
NORTH KOREAN ROAD BARRIERS WOULD BE REMOVED BY BULLDOZERS:
THE DURATION OF THE OPERATION WOULD BE ABOUT 45 MINUTES.
DECLASSIFIED
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SECURITY FORCE WITHIN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY AS WELL AS
ONE U.S. INFANTRY COMPANY POSITIONED CLOSE TO THE JSA AND
ARMED WITH CLUBS ONLY! WEAPONS WOULD BE IN NEARBY TRUCKS,
ALSO ONE ROK INFANTRY COMPANY ARMED WITH ORGANIC WEAPONS
WOULD BE POSITIONED NEARBY AND ONE U.S. OR ROK RIFLE COM-
PANY ORBITING IN HELOS IN THE VICINITY. ADDITIONALLY, A
TANK/INFANTRY BATTALION WOULD BE POSITIONED SOUTH OF THE
IMJIM RIVER. ARTILLERY WOULD BE PREPARED TO SUPPORT THE
OPERATION IF THE NORTH SHOULD USE WEAPONS.
THE MISSION IS TO ACCOMPLISM THE REMOVAL OF THE TREE AND
GATES WITHOUT SHOOTING, AND SHOULD THE OTHER SIDE START
SHOOTING, THE MISSION BECOMES ONE OF RAPID EXTRACTION OF
FORCES FROM CLOSE CONTACT RELYING PRIMARILY ON ARTILLERY
COVERING FIER JCS IS STAFFING THIS PROPOSAL FOR HIGH
LEVEL WASHINGON DECISION.
NORTH KOREAN ACTION
SENSITIVE SOURCES CONFIRM THAT SOME NK AIRCRAFT AND NAVAL
UNITS REMAIN ON ALERT STATUS. MEANWHILE NORTH KOREA IS
APPARENTLY MAKING DIPLOMATIC APPROACHES ON THE AUGUST 18
INCIDENT TO NUMEROUS FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.
CONTACTS WITH OUR ALLIES
IN ADDITION TO JAPAN, AND CANADA, WHICH WERE INFORMED
EARLIER, WE INSTRUCTED OUR POSTS TO INFORM OUR NATO
ALLIES, AS WELL AS AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, THAILAND AND THE
PHILIPPINES OF THE DEFCON 3 MOVE. A 000 PUBLIC STATEMENT
WAS SUBSEQUENTLY ISSUED BRIEFLY NOTING THE INCREASED READ-
FORD & LIBRARY GERALD
INESS POSTURE BEING ADOPTED BY US FORCES IN KOREA.
CINCUNC LETTER TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL
WE HAVE INSTRUCTED USUN TO DELIVER TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL
A LETTER FROM CINCUNC WHICH GIVES À FACTUAL ACCOUNT OF THE
PANMUNJON INCIDENT.
CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS
AMB. MCCLOSKEY AND THE H STAFF ARE CONSULTING ON THE HILL
INFORMING SELECTED MEMBERS OF DEVELOPMENTS AND EXPLAINING
THAT OUR MOVES DO NOT INVOLVE THE WAR POWERS ACT. CON-
GRESSIONAL LEADERS IN KANSAS CITY ARE ALSO BEING BRIEFED.
AMBASSADOR SNEIDER RETURNS TO SEOUL
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RETURNING TO KOREA THIS EVENING.
WORLD REACTION
INTERNATIONAL REACTION TO THE AUGUST 18 INCIDENT HAS THUS
FAR BEEN RELATIVELY LIGHT:
-- AT THE NON-ALIGNED SUMMIT CONFERENCE IN COLOMBO THE NEWS
HAS SPREAD BLOWLY DESPITE THE RELEASE OF US AND SOUTH
KOREAN STATEMENTS. AS OF NOON TODAY WASHINGTON TIME, AFP
REPORTED MOST DELEGATIONS STILL UNAWARE OF THE INCIDENT.
-- AN OFFICIAL CUBAN STATEMENT PUBLISHED AUGUST 19 SAID
"ADVENTUROUS AND WARLIKE MANEUVERS OF AMERICAN IMPERIALISM"
COULD TRIGGER WAR IN KOREA. THE STATEMENT MADE NO SPECIFIC
MENTION OF THE AUGUST 18 CLASH, HOWEVER.
-- FRANKFURTER ALLEGEMEINE ZEITUNG AND SUEDDEUTSCHE ZEIT-
UNG BOTH STRONGLY DENDUNCED THE NORTH KOREAN "MURDERS".
-- JAPANESE PRESS COVERAGE WAS GENERALLY FACTUAL WITH LITTLE
COMMENTARY.
-- A JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN IN THE ABSENCE OF
VICE MINISTER SATO STATED THAT JAPAN IS WATCHING "WITH
GREAT CONCERN" THE INCIDENT, WHICH "LOOKED MORE SERIOUS"
THAN PREVIOUS DMZ CLASHES.
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INFO CINCUNC NIACT INMEDIATE
JCS/OSD/ISA NIACT IMMEDIATE
E. C R n T SEOUL 5475
JOINT STATE/DEFENSE MESSAGE
E.O. 116521 GDS
TAGS: KS, KN, us, MARR, MOPS
SUBJECT: APPROACH TO PRESIDENT PARK
1, IN ACCORDANCE INSTRUCTIONS CONTAINED STATE 206294,
GENERAL STILWELL AND I SAW PRESIDENT PARK THIS MORNING.
THE PRESIDENT WAS BRIEFED ON THE ACTIONS UNDERWAY (8=52
AND F-111) AND THE TENTATIVE PLANS FOR THE THE TREE REMOVAL,
ON THIS LAST ITEM, THE PRESIDENT WAS INFORMED ON A COUPLE
OF OCCASIONS THAT NO "EXECUTE" MESSAGE HAD BEEN RECEIVED.
THE PRESIDENT SPENT A GOOD DEAL OF TIME ASKING QUESTIONS
ABOUT THE JSA AREA,
2, IN ADDITION, HE REPEATED SEVERAL POINTS HE MADE TO
GENERAL STILWELL YESTERDAY CONCERNING:
A. MIS DEEP REGRETS FOR NORTH KOREAIS BARBAROUS ACTIONS
AND HIS CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF THE DEAD
OFFICERS.
B. HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE FIRM POSITION BEING TAKEN
GERALD FORD LIBRARY
BY THE USG,
C. HIS VIEW (REPEATED SEVERAL TIMES) THAT A
RESPONSE CONSISTING ONLY OF PROTESTS WOULD INVITE
FURTHER PROVOCATIONS, BUT THAT THE PLAN FOR THE TREE
REMOVAL WOULD SHON FIRMNESS AND RESOLVE WHICH WOULD
BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE NORTH.
D. HIS HOPE, WHICH HE SAID IS PROBABLY WISTFUL, THAT
NORTH KOREA WOULD APOLOGIZE AND PROMISE TO INSURE THAT
THERE HOULD BE NO REPETITION OF THE INCIDENT. WE
SHOULD HOWEVER CONTINUE TO PURSUE THIS GOAL,
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PRESENT PLANS AND THAT ESCALATION SHOULD ONLY EVOLVE IF
NORTH ESCALATES (E,G, BY FIRING). IF NORTH DOES NOT
RESPOND, THEN THE MATTER DROPS.
3, THE PRESIDENT HAD NO SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER
ACTIONS THAT MIGHT BE CONSIDERED BY USG, HE SEEMED
VERY PLEASED WITH USG POSTURE AND ACTIONS, HE
OBVIOUSLY CONSIDERS THE TREE REMOVAL TO BE ESSENTIAL.
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USMISSION USUN NEW YORK IMMEDIATE 1950
AMEMBASSY COLOMBO IMMEDIATE 112
AMEMBASSY TOKYO IMMEDIATE 8613
USLO PEKING IMMEDIATE 200
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REF: (A) STATE 206131 CDTG 190517Z AUG 76), (B) SEOUL 5453
CDTG 191018Z AUG 76)
BEGIN SUMMARY: DMZ MURDRS OF AUGUST 18 CONTINUED TO DOMINATE
ALL ROK MEDIA ON AUGUST 20. NEWSPAPERS ESPECIALLY
CARRIED ARTICLES ""-"".)
43, AND EDITORIALS
WHICH VIRTUALLY FILLED ALL OF FRONT PAGES AND MUCH OF
SEVERAL INSIDE PAGES. THEMES EXPRESSED INCLUDED OUTRAGE
AND CONCERN OVER IMPLICATIONS OF INCIDENT AND SPECULATION
ABOUT MOTIVATIONS BEHIND IT AND APPROPRIATE REACTION TO IT.
END SUMMARY.
1. MORNING NEWSPAPERS GAVE HEADLINE COVERAGE TO SPECIAL STATE-
MENT READ AT 7 PM ON AUGUST 19 BY KIM SONG-JIN, MINISTER OF
CULTURE AND INFORMATION, IDENTIFIED AS SPOKESMAN FOR
GOVERNMENT. STATEMENT NOTED THAT KIM IL-SONG, BY ORDERING
ALL OF NORTH KOREAIS (NK) REGULAR AND RESERVE FORCES INTO
FULL COMBAT READINESS, "HAD PUBLICLY REVEALED HIS SCHEME
TO ATTACK ROK BY ARMED FORCE AND DESTROY PEACE IN ASIA,"
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GRADUATES OF THIRD OFFICERS' SCHOOL. SPEECH REPORTED
SEPTEL.
3. NEWSPAPERS ALL DAY ALMOST UNIFORMLY DEVOTED MOST
OF FRONT PAGE AND SEVERAL OF INSIDE PAGES TO INCIDENT AND
ITS RAMIFICATIONS, MORNING STORIES MENTIONED
UNC IDENTIFIED TWO us OFFICERS KILLED BY NK AS
CAPT. ARTHUR G. BONIFAS AND LT. MARK BARRETT, THAT AP
DISPATCH FROM WASHINGTON SAID USFK HAS BEEN PLACED ON A
PRECAUTIONARY ALERT, AND THAT UNC SENT A PROTEST VERBALLY
TO NK COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF KIM IL-SUNG AT THE 379TH PANMUNJOM
MAC MEETING THURSDAY, DEMANDING GUARANTEE OF NO FURTHER
INCIDENTS. CHOSUN ILBO FRONTPAGED PANMUNJOM CORRESPONDENT
DISPATCH THAT GEN. STILWELL HAD A BRIEF TALK WITH
UNCMAC SENIOR MEMBER REAR ADM. FRUDDEN AT ADVANCE CAMP NEAR
PANMUNMOM THURSDAY. IN LENGTHY INSIDE PAGE ARTICLE,
HANKOOK ILBO REPORTER AN TAEK soo COMMENTED, "NK HAS PRODUCED
ANOTHER DRAMATIC INCIDENT IN ORDER TO DECEIVE ITS
PEOPLE INTO THINKING THAT WAR IS AT HAND IN KOREA....IT
WAS PROBABLY NECESSARY FOR NK TO FIND A NEW BREAKTHROUGH
TO GET RID OF THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND
DIPLOMATIC DIFFICULTIES FACING THEM THIS YEAR.... IN
HIS CONTIBUTION TO HANKOOK ILBO, PROF. LEE KI TAEK OF YONSEI
UNIVERSITY TERMED THE DMZ INCIDENT ANNON-MILITARY CONFLICT".
"NK EFFORTS TO GET NAC SUPPORT AT COLOMBO MEETING FOR CLAIM
THAT SHE IS SOLE LEGITIMATE GOVT. IN KOREA HAVE FAILED....NK
ALSO FAILED TO GET MIG-233 FROM USSR. NK SHOULD KNOW THAT us
CONCEPT OF KOREA HAS BEEN GREATLY CHANGED SINCE INDOCHINA
DEBACLE... NK APPARENTLY AIMED AT GENERATING us PUBLIC
OPINION TO OPPOSE US PRESENCE IN KOREA, BUT IT WILL
BE THE OTHER WAY.. NK'S BRUTAL ACT THIS TIME HAS PROVEN THAT
SHE CAN NEVER GET EQUAL TREATMENT FROM AMERICA WITH ROK,
EVEN IF CARTER BECOMES PRESIDENT...'
4. AFTERNOON PAPERS ALL CARRIED STORIES OF DEPLOYMENT TO
KOREA OF TWO SQUADRONS OF F-4 FIGHTER-BOMBERS FROM OKINAWA
AND ONE SQUADRON FO F-111 FIGHTER BOMBERS FROM MAINLAND
U.S. IN ORDER TO PREPARE FOR A POSSIBLE ALL-OUT ATTACK BY
NK. PAPERS ALSO MENTIONED MOVEMENT OF AIRCRAFT CARRIED
RANGER OF SEVENTH FLEET TO AN UNSPECIFIED LOCATION.
INSIDE PAGES TYPICALLY CARRIED SEVERAL PHOTOS, EACH
TWO-COLUMNS IN WIDTH, SHOWING SEQUENCE OF EVENTS AT
DMZ WHEN NK SOLDIERS ATTACKED. OTHER STORIES MENTIONED
THAT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY WILL HOLD JOINT MEETING
OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND NATIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEES ON AUGUST
21. COMMITTEES WILL BE BRIEFED ON MILITARY SITUATION
BY NO CHAE-HYON, CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF. NEWSPAPERS
ALSO QUOTED FOREIGN PRESS REACTION, NOTABLY YANAGIYAIS
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IN LONDON, AND LE MONDE NEWSPAPER IN PARIS. ALL PM PAPERS
FEATURED ON BOTTOM OF FRONT PAGE A STATEMENT BY
ROK VETERANS ASSOCIATION SAYING "LETIS CONDEMN NORTHERN PUPPETS!
OUTRAGE, TREACHEROUS INTENTIONS."
5, MORNING EDITORIAL COMMENTS: SHOCK AND ANGER WERE GENERAL
REACTIONS OF THE ROK PRESS ON NK DMZ KILLING OF US
OFFICERS. MASS.CIRCULATION HANDBOOK ILBO SAID, "IT IS
APPARENTLY AIMED TO COLLAPSE ARMISTICE AGREEMENT, TO
INSTIGATE us PUBLIC OPINION TO OPPOSE FOREIGN AID AND
US COMMITMENT FOR ROK, AND TO BRING ABOUT USFK PULLOUT
FROM ROK...WE CAN HARDLY RULE OUT POSSIBILITY THAT
MILITANT NK MAY LAUNCH SURPRISE ATTACK AGAINST ROK
DURING NOVERMBER US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND UNGA DEBATE...
IN THIS RESPECT, WE MUST BE ALERT FOR NK MACHINATIONS
TO START ANOTHER WAR IN KOREA...I
CONSERVATIVE CHOSUN ILBO COMMENTED, "WORLD NATIONS
ARE DEPLORING NK BRUTALITY.. NK DMZ MURDER OF us
OFFICERS HAS BUILOT WAR ATMOSPHERE IN KOREA, NK
APPARENTLY COMMITTED SUCH BRUTAL ACT IN ORDER TO LEAD
ITS PEOPLE TO PAY MORE CONCERN TO OUTSIDE MATTERS THAN
INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN THE WAKE OF SERIOUS POWER STRUGGLE
AND ECONOMIC CATASTROPHE PREVAILING IN NK. TO ISOLATE
ROK BY REALIZING DIRECT US-NK CONTACTS, AND TO ACCELERATE
USFK PULLUT FROM KOREA THROUGH PALSE PROPAGANDA THAT
THE TENSION IS INCREASING IN KOREA DUE TO us PRESENCE....
IT IS FEARED THAT NK PROVOCATIONS MAY CAUSE ALL OUT WAR
IN KOREA,,,HOWEVER, NK SHOULD NKOW THAT us IS FIRMLY
DETERMINED TO HELP KOREA, AND ROK HAS DEFENSE CAPA-
BILITIES SUFFICIENT TO LEAD NK TO SELF-DESTRUCTION
SHOULD THEY START ANOTHER WAR IN KOREA....
6. IN AFTERNOON, TONG-A ILBO EDITORIAL PROPOSED THE
PREPARATION OF PREVENTIVE AS WELL AS PUNITIVE MEASURES
BY WHICH NORTH KOREAN ATROCITIES COULD BE PREVENTED,
AND SUGGESTS THAT TRUTH OF PANMUNJOM MURDER CASE BE MADE
KNOWN TO NON-ALIGNED NATIONS CONFERENCE AND UN SECURITY
COUNCIL.
7. IN ADDITION, RADIO AND TV COVERAGE HAS BEEN
SIMILARLY HEAVY. TV STATIONS HAD SPECIALS ON INCIDENT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR ABOUT HALF HOUR. ABOUT 80 PERCENT
OF MORNING RADIO NEWS TIME WAS DEVOTED TO DMZ INCIDENT
AND ITS AFTERMAT, MENTIONING THEMSES TREATED IN MORE
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CREATION DATE
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REMOVE/PRUNE THE TREE IN VICINITY OF GUARD POST NC 3, ROUGH PLAN IS
OUTLINED BELOW,
2, CONCEPT OF OPERATION1
A: UNC TASK FORCE WILL ENTER JOINT SECURITY AREA AT H-HOUR
TO FELL TREE AND, SIMULTANEOUSLY, DEMOLISH TWO KPA INSTALLED
DROP BARRIERS "MICH IMPEDE FREE CIRCULATION WITHIN THE AREA.
D1 THE *CRK WILL INITIATE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE TO THE KPAi
ALTHOUGH NOTICE OF OUR INTENTIONS WILL BE COMMUNICATED SHORTLY
AFTER THE WORK HAS INITIATED:
c, WORK mILL 5@ ACCOMPLISHED BY SKILLED US ENGINEER PERSONNEL
SUPPORTED BY A PREDOMINANTLY ROK NATIONAL FORCE
(52-60) STRONG) WITHOUT
FIRE ADMS,
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E.O. 12356, Sec. 1.3 (a) (1)
D; DURATION OF OPERATION: APPROXIMATELY 45 MINUTES,
MR 94-38,#12 OSD Str. 5/23/95
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By KBH NARA, Date 6/13/95
F ; H-HOURI CIFCA 0722-6737.
3, AS THE FOREGOING MAKES EVIDENT, I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION
THAT THE ADVANTAGES OF PRIOR NOTIFICATION ARE OUTWEIGHTED BY THE DIS-
ADVANTAGES, AND PRIMARILY RECAUSE THE KPA WOULD HAVE SCOPE, IF THEY
DECIDED TO UTILIZE IT, TO FRUSTRATE OUR OHJECTIVE BY PASSIVE MEANS:
SECONDLY, I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT THE ODDS ARE IN FAVOR OF KPA NOT
DELIBERATELY REPEAT DELIRERATELY OPENING FIRE, THIRDLY, 1 HAVE OPTED
FOR PRESIDENT PARKIS BASIC CONCEPT AND HAVE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF HIS
OFFER TU PROVIDE THE 52 TOUGHEST AND MOST EXPERT TAEKWONDO SPECIALISTS
AVAILABLE, THE 904 SPECIAL FORCES WILL BECOME KATUSA OVERNIGHT AND
SECUNDED TO MY SECURITY GROUP,
4, WE BANK HEAVILY ON SURPRISE AND HAVE PICKED THE EARLY MORNING
HOUR BECAUSE THAT IS THE TIME THAT GUARD DETAILS CHANGE AND THERE IS
CONSIDERABLE VEHICULAR ACTIVITY DAILY. A 2-1/2 TON TRUCK PROCEEDS TO
CHECK POINT 3 AT APPROXIMATELY 073? DAILY WITH PERSONNEL FOR THAT
POST AND HABITUALLY REMAINS THERE UNTIL THE POST IS EVACUATED AT DARK-
FALL, of D-DAY THE TRUCK WOULD 85 FILLED WITH HALF OF THE BASIC FORCES
REQUIRED TO SUPPORT THE TREE OPERATION: THE REMAINDER OF THE FORCE
SECRET
WOULD COME BY THE SAME MEANS A FEW MINUTES LATER, IF IT WAS DETERMINED
THAT SURPRISE HAD BEEN LOST AND THE TREE WAS SURROUNDED BY KPA,
WE WOULD THEN HAVE THE OPTION OF BRINGING THE FIRST TRUCK BACK AND
RETIMING THE OPERATION - OR PRESSING ON, IF THE OPERATION WENT
FORWARD, ONE THUCK WOULD BE POSITIONED TO BLOCK KPA REINFORCEMENTS
MOVING ACROSS THE BRIDGE OF NO RETURN BY VEHICLE,
5, THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TWO ROAD BARRIERS IS, OF COURSE,
A New STARTER, THOSE ROAD BLOCKS CONSIST OF 2 HEAVY, MANUALLY
OPERATED BARRIERS ERECTED SOME TIME AGO OVER OUR OBJECTIONS.
THEY HAVE BEEN USED FROM TIME TO TIME TO DAMAGE OUR VEHICLES
AND INHIBIT OUR MOVEMENT: THEY ARE SO LOCATED AS TO MAKE KPA
PROTECTION THEREOF RELATIVELY MORE DIFFICULT; AND CAN BE DISPOSED
OF READILY BY TRACK CR WHEELED VEHICLE WITH BULLDOZER BLADE. I
STRONGLY RECOMMEND THEY BE ADDED TO THE PACKAGEI THEY ARE IN
CLEAR VIOLATION OF THE RULES AND CHANGE OUR OPERATION FROM ONE OF
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SIMPLE REACTION,
6: I DESIRE TO HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO FELL THE TREE EITHER
BY SAWING OR BY DEMOLITION (C-4), DETERMINATION OF WHICH METHOD
WILL HINGE ON WHETHER 1 HAVE POWERFUL ENOUGH SAWS TO DO THE JOB
IN 30 MINUTES OR LESS. THE DEMOLITION METHOD IS FASTER BUT IT DOES
CARRY SOME ADDITIONAL RISK BY REASON OF VIOLENCE OF EXPLOSION,
7, AS TO BACK-UP FORCEST
A: THE AUTHORIZED 35 MAN ARMED SECURITY FORCE WILL BE
POSITIONED A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY. AS IMMEDIATE RESERVE,
B; ONE INFANTRY COMPANY OF THE 2D US DIVISION WILL SE
POSITIONED CLOSE TO THE USA, ARMED WITH CLUBS ONLY, THEIR
WEAPONS IN NEARGY TRUCKS:
C, ONE ROK INFANTRY COMPANY WILL ALSO SE POSITIONED NEAR
THE JSA AND DEPLOYED WITH ORGANIC WEAPONS, IN CONTRAST TO THE
US COMPANY, ITS CONTINGENT MISSION WILL SE TO MOVE INTO OVER-
WATCHING POSITIONS AND PROVIDE COVERING FIRES SHOULD SHOOTING
START,
vi ONE RIFLE COMPANY 120K OR US) WOULD BE LAUNCHED AT H-HOUR
IN HELICOPTERS (UH-1H) AND ORBIT VICINITY CF THE SOUTHERN TRACE
OF THE DMZ, BEING VISIBLE AND AUDIBLE TO PERSONNEL IN JEA, WE
BELIEVE THAT THE AIR-MOBILE UNIT WOULD DISTRACT AND CONCERN
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E: A TANK/INFANTRY SATTALION TF (2 TAN.5/1 MECH INFANTRY
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Fi ARTILLERY WILL BE PREPARED TO SUPPORT THE OPERATION, IF
BATTLE SHOULD ERUPT, IN 8/9 BATTALION STRENGTH: AIR OPS AND
GROUND ARTILLERY FOS WILL BE IN PLACE.
G: THE I CORPS (ROK/US) GROUP WILL BE BROUGHT TO
8: CONTROL OF ESCALATION 15 THE GUT QUESTION:
A; IF WE ARE CORRECT IN OUR ASSUMPTION THAT KPA WILL NOT
DELIBERATELY FIRE ON US TO STOP THE WORK, THE PROBLEM IS
MANAGEABLE, SHOULD THE KPA MUSTER ENOUGH FORCE TO ACHIEVE THE
UPPER HAND OVER OUR KATUSA (READ SPECIAL FORCES) I WOULD BRING
IN THE us RIFLE COMPANY WITH CLUBS TO COVER THE WITHDRAWAL OF
THE ROK SPECIALISTS. MY EXPECTATION WOULD BE THAT THE TREE
WOULD THEN HAVE BEEN FELLED AND THE ROAD BARRIERS DEMOLISHED:
B, WE MAY, OF COURSE, 85 DEAD WRONG ABOUT THE KPA RESCTION,
WE HAVE NO FIRM EVIDENCE ON WHICH TO JUDGE WHETHER THE 18
SECRET
AUGUST INCIDENT WAS DELIBERATELY ENGINEERED BY NORTH KOREAN
LEADERSHIP WITH THE INTENT OF PROVOKING A CONFLICT OF WHETHER
17 WAS A SPONTANEOUS, LOW-LEVEL OVER-REACTION, GIVEN THE
BEHAVIOR PATTERN OF NORTH KOREAN LEADERSHIP THE FORMER CANNOT
BE DISCOUNTED: ON THE OTHER HAND, THE NORTH'S AGREEMENT TO
ATTEND TODAY'S MAC MEETING (WHEN THEY COULD WELL HAVE USED
DELAYING TACTICS) AND ITS OBVIOUS DESIRE TO GET THE MEETING
OVER WITH QUICKLY, SUGGESTS THE LATTER, OUR ROK COLLEAGUES
ARE PERSUADED THAT KPA WILL NOT RESORT TO SHOOTING WITHIN THE
JSA PROPER,
C: WE CANNOT FORESEE ALL THE WAYS IN WHICH THE KPA MIGHT EMPLOY
DEAULY FIRES OR THE VARIETY OF ENDS KPA MIGHT SEEK TO ACHIEVE ONCE
FIRE WAS OPEN, THERE ARE TWO EXTREMES:
(1) THE FIRST IS THAT THE KPA FORCES DEPLOYED TO CONTEST OUR
OPERATION MIGHT REVERT TO THE USE OF THEIR REVOLVERS IN SELF-DEFENSE:
IN THAT KIND OF MELEE OUR LOGICAL RIPOSTE IS MORTAR AND ARTILLERY
FIRE ON KNOWN OR SUSPECTED NORTH KOREAN INSTALLATIONS JUST OUTSIDE
THE JSA FOR 50 LONG AS NECESSARY- TO EXTRICATE OUR ELEMENTS DIRECTLY
INVOLVED IN THE OPERATION,
(2) THE OTHER EXTREME IS A CONCERTED GROUND ATTACK WITH
THE INTENT OF OVERRUNNING THE JSA, WE WOULD, IN MY ESTIMATE, BE
ILL-ADVISED TO CONTEST THE KPA, CN THE GROUND, IN THIS SPECIFIC AREA:
IN THIS EVENTUALITY, 1 WOULD PROPOSE EMPLOYING THE ROK/US BACK UP
FORCES TO COVER THE WITHDRAWAL OF ALL OUR ELEMENTS FROM THE JSA WHILE
DELIVERING HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRES ON KPA TARGETS OUTSIDE THE USA,
THE FORCE BALANCE IN THAT IMMEDIATE AREA MAKES THIS COURSE PRUDENT:
TO BE SURE, WE WOULD LOSE THE JSA (AT LEAST TEMPORILY) BUT WE WOULD
THEN HAVE TO BE READING FOR FAR MORE IMPORTANT ACTIONS.
D, IN PETWEEN THE TWO EXTREMES ARE A LEGION OF POSSIBILITIES WHICH
COULD MAKE PRECISE CONTROL OF ESCALATION DIFFICULT TO MANAGE, WE WILL
NEED GOOD LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS) COOL HEADS AND THOROUGH UNDERSTANDING
OF THE MISSION, THAT MISSION IS TO ACCOMPLISH THE REMOVAL OF THE
GBSTRUCTIONS WITHOUT A SHOOTING BATTLE ENSUING: AND SHOULD THE OTHER
SIDE START SHOOTING, THE MISSION BECOMES ONE OF RAPID EXTRICATION
OF OUR FORCES FROM CLOSE CONTACT, RELYING PRIMARILY CN ARTILLERY
COVERING FIRES,
9, 1 CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THAT THE OPERATION SHOULD GO FORWARD.
RECOGNIZING THAT THIS OUTLINE PLAN HAS BEEN PUT TOGETHER UNDER
FORCED DRAFT, I HOPE THAT WE WILL HAVE THE FLEXIBILITY TO MAKE
CHANGES OF DETAIL WHILE ADHERING TO THE CONCEPT,
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JOINT STATE/DEFENSE MESSAGE
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TAGS: KS, KN, US, MARR, MOPS
SUBJECT: APPROACH TO PRESIDENT PARK
1. IN ACCORDANCE INSTRUCTIONS CONTAINED STATE 206294,
GENERAL STILWELL AND I SAW PRESIDENT PARK THIS MORNING,
THE PRESIDENT WAS BRIEFED ON THE ACTIONS UNDERWAY (8=52
AND F-1119 AND THE TENTATIVE PLANS FOR THE THE TREE REMOVAL.
ON THIS LAST ITEM, THE PRESIDENT WAS INFORMED ON A COUPLE
OF OCCASIONS THAT NO "EXECUTE" MESSAGE HAD BEEN RECEIVED.
THE PRESIDENT SPENT A GOOD DEAL OF TIME ASKING QUESTIONS
ABOUT THE JSA AREA.
2. IN ADDITION, HE REPEATED SEVERAL POINTS HE MADE TO
GENERAL STILWELL YESTERDAY CONCERNING:
A. HIS DEEP REGRETS FOR NORTH KOREA'S BARBAROUS ACTIONS
AND HIS CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF THE DEAD
OFFICERS.
B, HIS APPRECIATION FOR THE FIRM POSITION BEING TAKEN
BY THE USG.
C. HIS VIEW (REPEATED SEVERAL TIMES) THAT A
RESPONSE CONSISTING ONLY OF PROTESTS WOULD INVITE
FURTHER PROVOCATIONS, BUT THAT THE PLAN FOR THE TREE
REMOVAL WOULD SHOW FIRMNESS AND RESOLVE WHICH WOULD
BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE NORTH.
D. HIS HOPE, WHICH HE SAID IS PROBABLY WISTFUL, THAT
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RESPOND, THEN THE MATTER DROPS.
3. THE PRESIDENT HAD NO SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER
ACTIONS THAT MIGHT BE CONSIDERED BY USG, ME SEEMED
VERY PLEASED WITH USG POSTURE AND ACTIONS. HE
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At about 7 am Korean time on August 20 a UN Command work
group cut down the tree which the North Koreans had pre-
vented an earlier work party from pruning on August 18.
The North Korean action, which involved the brutal murder
of two American officers, was a major infringement of the
rights of the UN Command to operate in the neutral Joint
Security Area. It was also an attempt to threaten the
future safety of an element of the UNC within the Joint
Security Area.
As has been pointed out, this tree had been obstructing
the view of a UNC guard post in the neutral Joint Security
Area of the DMZ. Eliminating this obstruction was Vital
to the safety of the guards manning this post, and there-
fore was a step that was essential to the ability of the
UN Command to fullfill its obligations under the Armistice
Agreement.
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(TEXT) PYONGYANG, AUGUST 20, (KCNA) -THE ENTIRE SOLDIERS
OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY AND MEMBERS OF THE WORKER-PEASANT
RED GUARDS AND THE RED YOUNG GUARDS WHO HAVE ENTERED INTO COMBAI
READINESS ON THE ORDER OF COMRADE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE KOREAN
PEOP! E'S ARMY ARE SHARPLY WATCHING WITH HEIGHTENED VIGILANCE THE
CRIMINAL MOVES OF THE U.S. IMPERIALIST AGGRESSORS TO IMPOSE THE
DISASTERS OF WAR UPON OUR PEOPLE AGAIN AND HARDENING THEIR
DETERMINATION TO ANNIHILATE THE ENEMY AT A STROKE IF HE LIGHTS THE
BL ASTING FUSE OF WAR.
OFFICER YI CHONG-HWAN OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S 4RMY UNIT TO
WHICH COMRADE SONG NI HO BELONGS HAD THIS TO SAY:
OUR PEOPLE'S ARMY FIGHTERS SUPPORT TO THE HILT THE
DECISIVE STEPS TAKEN AGAINST THE RECKLESS WAR CLAMOURS OF
THE U.S. IMPERIALIST AGGRESSORS AND RENEW THE FIRM DETERMINATION
TO DEMO STRATE THE HONOUR OF THE GUARD DETACHMENT, DEATH-DEFYING
CORPS AND SHOCK BRIGADE IN CARRYING THROUGH THE ORDER OF
COMRADE SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY.
DECLARING THAT THE RECKLESS WAR RACKETS OF THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS
ARE NOTHING BUT THE LAST CONVU SION OF THE DOOMED, HE SAID:
IF THE U.S. IMPERIALIST AGGRESSORS RECKLESSLY START ANOTHER
WAR, FR FROM DRAWING F. LESSON FROM THEIR IGNOMINIOUS DEFEAT IN THE
PAST THREE-YEAR KOREAN WAR, THE ONE-BEATS-A-HUNDRED OFFICERS AND
MEN OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY WHO ARE CLOSELY RALLIED AROUND
THE GREAT LEADER WITH ONE MIND AND ONE PURPOSE AND FIRMLY ARMED WITH
THE IMMORTAL CHUCHE IDEA AND THE EVER-VICTORIOUS CHUCHE-B/SED
TACTICS WILL CRUSH AND WIPE THEM OUT TO THE LAST MAN.
UPHOLDING THE ORDER OF RESPECT AND BELOVED COMRADE SUPREME
COMMANDER, THE ENTIRE OFFICERS AND MEN OF OUR PEOPLE'S ARMY HAVE
PLACED THEMSELVES IN FULL COMBAT POSTURE AND ARE CLOSELY WATCHING
EVERY MOVE OF THE ENEMY.
YI HYO-KUN, MEMBER OF THE WORKER-PEASANT RED GUARDS OF THE
FACTORY WHERE COMRADE KIM CHONG-SAM WORKS, SAID:
IF THE ENEMY DARE POUNCE UPON US, THE ONE-BEATS-A-HUNDRED
MEMBERS OF THE WORKER-PEASANT RED GUARDS, SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE
PEOPLE'S ARMY, WILL DEAL AN ANNIMILATING BLOW TO THE AGGRESSORS AND
CRUSH THEM TO THE LAST MAN SO THAT NONE OF THE MAY RETURN
HOME ALIVE.
PAK SUN-HO, MEMBER OF THE RED YOUNG GUARDS OF THE SCHOOL
JHERE COMRADE YI NAK-SON WORKS, STRESSED: IT THIS GRAVE MOMENT
THE HEARTS OF THE RED YOUNG GUARDSMEN IN WHOSE VEIN FLOWS ONLY
THE PURE BLOOD OF CHUCHE TYPE ARE FILLED WITH THE UNSHAKABLE
DET ERMINATION TO SWEEP AWAY THE AGGRESSORS TO THE LAST MEN IF THEY
DARE START A WAR.
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THE SOLDIERS OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMY AND THE MEMBERS
OF THE WORKER-PEASANT RED GUARDS AND RED YOUNG
GUARDS WHO HAVE MADE FULL COMBAT PREPAREDNESS ARE HARDENING
THE FIRM DETERMINATION TO DEFEND THE SOCIALIST FATHERLAND AS FIRM
AS AN IRON WALL FROM THE ENEMY'S AGGRESSION.
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AND DEFENSE THIS EVENING.
DRAFT PROPOSED PRESS GUIDANCE
AT ABOUT 7 AM KOREAN TIME ON AUGUST 20 A UN COMMAND WORK
GROUP CUT DOWN THE TREE WHICH THE NORTH KOREANS HAD PRE-
VENTED AN EARLIER WORK PARTY FROM PRUNING ON AUGUST 18,
THE NORTH KOREAN ACTION, WHICH INVOLVED THE BRUTAL MURDER
OF TWO AMERICAN OFFICERS, WAS A MAJOR INFRINGEMENT OF THE
RIGHTS OF THE UN COMMAND TO OPERATE IN THE NEUTRAL JOINT
SECURITY AREA, IT WAS ALSO AN ATTEMPT TO THREATEN THE
FUTURE SAFETY OF AN ELEMENT OF THE UNC WITHIN THE JOINT
SECURITY AREA.
AS HAS BEEN POINTED OUT, THIS TREE HAD BEEN OBSTRUCTING
THE VIEW OF A UNC GUARD POST IN THE NEUTRAL JOINT SECURITY
AREA OF THE DMZ, ELIMINATING THIS OBSTRUCTION WAS VITAL
TO THE SAFETY OF THE GUARDS MANNING THIS POST, AND THERE-
FORE WAS A STEP THAT WAS ESSENTIAL TO THE ABILITY OF THE
UN COMMAND TO FULFILL ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE ARMISTICE
AGREEMENT,
WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEEK WAYS TO REDUCE TENSIONS AND TO ACHIEVE
A MORE STABLE, PEACEFUL SITUATION IN KOREA. SUITABLE MEANS TO THIS END
HAVE BEEN PROPOSED BY THE UNITED STATES AND THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA,
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BUT REJECTED BY NORTH KOREA. WE URGE THE NORTH KOREANS TO RECONSIDER
THEIR POSITION AND TO RECOGNIZE THAT PROVOCATIVE ACTIONS OF THE SORT
THEY ENGAGED IN ON AUGUST 18 ARE COMPLETELY UNWARRANTED,
DANGEROUS, AND SHOULD NOT BE REPEATED.
IF THE ACTION ESCALATES, THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH SHOULD REPLACE
THE LAST PARAGRAPHI
OBVIOUSLY, WE REGRET THAT NORTH KOREAN EFFORTS TO BLOCK OUR
WORK FORCE IN THE EXERCISE OF ITS RIGHTS LED TO VIOLENCE, FIRING,
AND FURTHER CASUALTIES. HOWEVER, OUR WORK FORCE WAS NOT ARMED,
OUR MILITARY POLICE TOOK ABSOLUTELY MINIMAL PROTECTIVE REACTION,
AND THE SUBSEQUENT ACTION WAS AGAINST FULLY APPROPRIATE TARGETS,
NORTH KOREA MUST UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY OF THE SITUATION AND
REALIZE THAT IT WILL BE HELD FULLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR ALL ITS
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1. IF THERE IS NO EXCHANGE OF FIRE DURING THE OPERATION THE
FOLLOWING PRESS STATEMENT SHOULD BE ISSUED BY THE STATE AND
DEFENSE DEPARTMENTS UPON COMPLETION OF THE OPERATION, THERE
WILL BE NO FURTHER COMMENTS AND NO BRIEFINGS BY ANYONE ABOUT
THE OPERATION OR ANY OF ITS DETAILS.
"AT ABOUT 7 AM KOREAN TIME ON AUGUST 28 A UN COMMAND
WORK GROUP CUT DOWN THE TREE WHICH THE NORTH KOREANS
HAD PREVENTED AN EARLIER WORK PARTY FROM PRUNING ON
AUGUST 18."
2, IF THE OPERATION RESULTS IN AN EXCHANGE OF FIRE THE FOLLOWING
PRESS QUIDANCE WILL BE ISSUED WITH NO FURTHER STATEMENTS PENDING
ADDITIONAL GUIDANCE,
"AT ABOUT 7 AM KOREAN TIME ON 20 AUGUST A UN COMMAND WORK
GROUP ATTEMPTED TO CUT DOWN THE TREE WHICH THE NORTH
KOREANS HAD PREVENTED AN EARLIER WORK PARTY FROM PRUNING
ON AUGUST 18, THIS TREE HAD BEEN OBSTRUCTING THE VIEW
OF A UNC GUARD POST IN THE NEUTRAL JOINT SECURITY AREA
OF THE DMZ, ELIMINATING THIS OBSTRUCTION WAS VITAL TO
THE SAFETY OF THE GUARDS MANNING THIS POST, AND THERE-
FORE WAS A STEP THAT WAS ESSENTIAL TO THE ABILITY OF
THE UN COMMAND TO FULFILL ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE
ARMISTICE AGREEMENT.
"THE HOSTILE FIRE INITIATED BY NORTH KOREAN FORCES PROVES
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(TEXT) PYONGYANG, AUGUST 20, (KCNA)--THE U.S.
IMPERIALISTS WHO COMMITTED f DELIBERATE PROVOCATION
AGAINST OUR SIDE IN THE JOINT SECURITY AREA OF PANMUNJOM
ON AUGUST T3 INSTANTLY ISSUED AN "EMERGENCY ALERT ORDER" TO
THEIR AGGRESSION TROOPS OCCUPYING SOUTH KOREA AND ALL
THE PUPPET ARMY UNITS TO ENTER INTO FULL COMBAT READINESS AND CRE
MOVING AND DEPLOYING MORE ARMED FORCES IN THE ARE: ALONG THE
MILITARY DEMARCATION LINE AND HURRIEDLY SENDING THEIR AIR FORCE
UNITS TO SOUTH KOREA, ACCORDING TO A FOREIGN PRESS REPORT FROM
WASHINGTON.
THE U.S. DEFENCE DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCED ON AUGUST 19 THAT AFTER
THE PROVOCATION IN PANMUNJOM IT ALREADY SENT F. SQUADRON OF "F-4"
SUPERSONIC FIGHTERS FROM KADENA AIR FORCE BASE IN OKINAWA OF JAPAN
AND "DEPLOYED IT IN SOUTH KOREA" AND IS HURRIEDLY BRINGING INTO
SOUTH KOREA A SQUADRON OF LATEST TYPE "F-111" FIGHTER-BOMBERS FROM
1 BASE IN IDAHO STATE, U.S. A.
THIS CLEARLY SHOWS THAT THE PROVOCAHION COMMITTED BY THEM IN
THE JOINT SECURITY AREA OF PANMUNJON WAS A PREMEDITATED CRIMINAL
ACT DESIGNED TO FIND A PRETEXT FOR LIGHTING THE BLASTING FUS= OF
WAR AND THEIR MANOEUVRES TO INVADE THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE
REPUB IC THROUGH A "SHORT WAR" BY "AIR STRIKE" AND "SURPRISE ATTACK"
ARE BEING TRANSLATED INTO REALITY WITH GREAT RAPIDITY WITH
THIS PROVOCATION AS AN OCCASION.
OWING TO THE VICIOUS NEW WAR PROVOCATION MANOEUVRES OF
THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS, THE SITUATION IN OUR COUNTRY HAS NOW BEEN FURTHER
STRAINED AND HAS REACHED f VERY TENSE AND CRITICAL POINT WHERE
A WAR MAY BREAK OUT ANY MOMENT.
THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS MUST LOOK STRIGHT AT THE REALITY AND
BEHAVE WITH DISCRETION. THEY MUST STOP RUNNING RIOT.
OUR PEOPLE AND THE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMY ARE
WATCHING WITH HEIGHTENED REVOLUTIONARY VIGILANCE THE U.S.
IMPERIALISTS' RECKLESS WAR PROVOCATION MANOEUVRES AND ALL THEIR
AGGRESSIVE ACTS AND ARE IN FULL READINESS TO WIPE OUT THE AGGRESSORS
AT A STROKE.
WE DO NOT WANT A WAR BUT ARE NEVER AFRAID OF IT.
GERALD A. FORD LIBRARY
IF THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS PERSIST IN PROVOCATIVE ACTS IN AN
ATTEMPT TO REALISE THEIR AGGRESSIVE DESIGN ON KOREA AND DARE
IGHITE A WAR OF AGGRESSION, THEY WILL MEET A POWERFUL RESISTANCE OF
OUR PEOPLE AND GO TO RUIN.
20 AUG $323Z SGG/SAJ
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HYLAN Hy
CHUNG-HEE SAID TODAY HIS COUNTRY WOULD RETALIATE IMMEDIATELY IF
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NORTH KOREAN FORCES ""DARE COMMIT AN ILLEGAL PROVOCATION AGAIN. " "
THE PRESIDENT WAS COMMENTING ON WEDNESDAY"S INCIDENT IN THE
DEMILITARIZED ZONE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA IN WHICH TWO
U.S. OFFICERS WERE KILLED AND NINE SOUTH KOREANS AND AMERICANS
INJURED.
""WE NEED A CLUB TO DEAL WITH A MAD DOG, " THE PRESIDENT SAID
IN AN ADDRESS PREPARED FOR GRADUATING OFFICERS AT A JUNIOR
MILITARY ACADEMY HERE.
""SHOULD THEY (NORTH KOREA) DARE COMMIT AN ILLEGAL
PROVOCATION AGAIN, LARGE OR SMALL, AN IMMEDIATE PUNITIVE ACTION
WILL BE TAKEN AND THEY WILL HAVE TO BEAR ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR
SU CH A DEVELOPMENT, .... HE SAID IN THE SPEECH READ FOR HIM BY
DEFENSE MINISTER SUH JYONG-CHUL.
""THERE IS A LIMIT TO OUR PATIENCE, " THE PRESIDENT ADDED.
AFTER A MEETING AT THE TRUCE VILLAGE OF PANMUNJOM TODAY
BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREAN RED CROSS OFFICIALS, A SOUTHERN
DELEGATE CHARGED THAT LAST WEDNESDAY"S INCIDENT HAD HAMPERED
EFFORTS BY HIS SIDE TO BREAK A DEADLOCK IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH
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FRONT-PAGED GENERALLY FACTUAL REPORTS FROM WASHINGTON AND
SEOUL ON PANMUNJOM INCIDENT (SOME CONTAINED STORY ONE NORTH
KOREAN KILLED). AFTERNOON PRESS PUBLISHED STRAIGHT-
FORWARD ACCOUNTS OF US STATEMENT DEPLORING MURDERS
BUT PLACED THEM ON PAGE TWO OR FURTHER INSIDE PAPER,
2. FONDEF SOURCES SAY THAT VICE MINISTER SATO IS
OUT OF TOWN TODAY AND WILL NOT GIVE HIS USUAL
5 PM PRESS BRIEFING, FONOFF SPOKESMAN DEALING WITH
PRESS EARLIER IN DAY CONFINED HIMSELF TO STATEMENT
THAT GOJ FOLLOWING SITUATION CAREFULLY AND KEEPING
INCLOSE TOUCH WITH US EMBASSY.
3. STORY BROKE TOO LATE TO PERMIT
PREPARATION OF EDITORIAL COMMENT TODAY, ONLY MEDIA
COMMENT WE AWARE OF so FAR COMES FROM YOMIURI
TV NEWSCASTER, WHO DESCRIBED us STATEMENT AS
STRONGEST ON KOREA SINCE FORD BECAME PRESIDENT,
WE EXPECT MORE COMMENT TOMORROW, ESPECIALLY AFTER
MORE BECOMES KNOWN OF US REACTION.
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IN RESPONDING TO EXPECTED QUESTIONS AS FOLLOWS:
2, PRIOR NOTIFICATION. GUIDANCE STATES THAT US EMBASSY INFORMED
FONOFF ABOUT NOON AUGUST 19 LOCAL, RESPONSE WILL STRESS THAT USG
NOTIFICATION REFERRED TO SQUADRON MOVE FROM KADENA TO AN AIR BASE
IN KOREA.
3, PRIOR CONSULTATIONS. GUIDANCE NOTES THAT SQUADRON MOVE DID NOT
CONSTITUTE COMBAT OPERATION FROM JAPAN SINCE IT INVOLVED ONLY A
MOVE TO AN AIRBASE IN KOREA, THUS PRIOR CONSULTATIONS NOT REQUIRED
UNDER MST,
4. REASONS FOR DEPLOYMENT. GUIDANCE WILL NOTE THAT THIS INVOLVES
USG POLICY MATTERS, THAT GOJ WISHES TO AVOID EXPLAINING THE REASONS,
BUT THAT GOJ BELIEVES THE DEPLOYMENT IS RELATED TO THE AUGUST 18
DMZ INCIDENT.
5. GUIDANCE WILL BE USED ONLY ON AN IF ASKED BASIS.
6. FONOFF AGAIN EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR TIMELY INFO AND ASKED
THAT IT BE KEPT INFORMED OF DEVELOPMENTS,
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CREATION DATE
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SUBJECT: PONMIN'S LETTER TO CINCUNC ON DMZ INCIDENT
FOLLOWING IS TEXT OF LETTER WHICH GENERAL STILWELL RECEIVED
AUGUST 19 FROM FONMIN PAK TONG-CHIN:
BEGIN QUOTE:
1. I MASTEN TO EXPRESS MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY OVER
THE MOST TRAGIC INCIDENT WHICH TOOK PLACE YESTERDAY AT PAN-
MUNJOM DUE TO THE PREMEDITATED PROVOCATION BY
COMMUNIST NORTH KOREA,
2, I WAS GREATLY SHOCKED AT THE SAD NEWS OF BRUTAL MURDER
OF SOME MILITARY PERSONNEL OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMAND
WHO ENGAGED IN A PEACEFUL WORK AT THE JOINT SECURITY AREA,
PANMUNJOM, AND CANNOT HELP BUT EXPRESS OUR OWN
INDIGNATION AGAINST THE INHUMAN ACT OF THE COMMUNIST SOLDIERS
AND THEIR SERIOUS VIOLATION OF THE ARMISTICE AGREEMENT.
3. THE CALCULATED HOSTILE ACT BY NORTH KOREA APPEARS TO ME
LINKED TO ITS RECENT FAILURE AT THE COLOMBO SUMMIT CONFERENCE
DN NON-ALIGNED COUNTRIES IN ITS SCHEME TO PORTRAY THE
UNITED STATES AS AN IMPERIALISTIC POWER ATTEMPTING TO WAGE
A WAR ON NORTH KOREA IN COLLABORATION WITH THE REPUBLIC
OF KOREA, THE INCIDENT SEEMS ALSO LINKED TO THE NORTH
KOREAN STRATEGY AT THE FORTHCOMING 31ST SESSION OF THE
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY WITH REGARD TO THE KOREAN
QUESTION.
4. I AM CERTAIN THAT THE UGLY SCHEME OF THE NORTH KOREAN
COMMUNISTS CANNOT SUCCEED. TO THE CONTRARY, THEY WILL ONLY
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PEACE-LOVING COUNTRIES SUCH AS THE UNITED STATES AND THE
REPUBLIC OF KOREA, FURTHERMORE, THEIR DESPERATE ACTS TO
HEIGHTEN TENSIONS ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA CALL FOR CONTINUED
VIGILANCE ON OUR PART AGAINST THE SINISTER MANEUVERS OF
NORTH KOREA IN THE FUTURE.
5, ONCE AGAIN I EXTEND MY PROFOUND CONDOLENCES TO YOU
AND TO THE BEREAVED FAMILIES OF THE INNOCENT VICTIMS WHO
HAVE CONTRIBUTED so MUCH TO THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND
SECURITY ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA.
6, WITH WARMEST PERSONAL REGARDS. SINCERELY
YOURS, PAK TONG-CHIN, END QUOTE,
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POLCOUNS AUGUST 19 CALLED ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS BUREAU DIRECTOR
PAK SANG-YONG AND PROVIDED HIM FULL BRIEFING ON EVENTS WHICH
OCCURED JSA AUGUST 18, AFTER EXPRESSING CONDOLENCES PAK ASKED
SEVERAL QUESTIONS ABOUT EXACT SEQUENCE OF EVENTS, OBVIOUSLY
REFLECTING MOFA AND OTHER ROKG INTEREST AND CONCERN. HE QUESTIONED
POLCOUNS SEVERAL TIMES ON PLANS TO COMPLETE THE TREE PRUNING
JOB TO RAISE QUESTION IN UN AND TO GIVE WORLDWIDE PUBLICITY
TO NORTH KOREAN ACTION. POLCOUNS GAVE GENERAL ANSWERS
INDICATING THESE MATTERS WERE UNDER CAREFUL REVIEW. PAK
SAID INFORMATION REGARDING, INCIDENT HAD BEEN CIRCULATED TO
KEY ROK EMBASSIES OVERSEAS. HE SAID MOFA WAS EXAMINING WAYS
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Q: HOW CLOSELY IN TOUCH WITH THE SITUATION WAS THE
PRESIDENT KEPT IN KANSAS CITY? DID THE SECRETARY AND THE
PRESIDENT DISCUSS THE SITUATION PERSONALLY?
A: THE PRESIDENT WAS KEPT IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH THE
SITUATION AND DISCUSSED IT PERSONALLY WITH THE SECRETARY.
Q: HAVE WE NOTICED ANY INCREASED NORTH KOREAN MILITARY
ACTIVITY IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THEIR
FORCES HAVE GONE INTO A WAR POSTURE?
A # I AM NOT IN A POSITION TO GO INTO WHAT WE HAVE
OBSERVED WITH REGARD TO THE MILITARY POSTURE OF THE
NORTH KOREANS, BUT YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW THAT
NORTH KOREA TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT IT HAS ORDERED ITS ARMY
AND MILITIA INTO FULL COMBAT READINESS.
Q: HAVE THE NORTH KOREANS ANNOUNCED THIS KIND OF WAR
POSTURE STATUS BEFORE?
A : AS FAR AS WE CAN DETERMINE, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME
THAT THE NORTH KOREANS HAVE PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED SUCH AN
ALERT.
Q: ANNOUNCEMENT ASIDE, HAS THE us EVER OBSERVED A MILITARY
POSTURE EQUIVALENT TO WHAT THE NORTH KOREANS ARE NOW
TAKING?
A: AS I HAVE JUST TOLD YOU, I AM NOT IN A POSITION TO
DESCRIBE OUR OBSERVATIONS OF THE NORTH KOREAN MILITARY
POSTURE.
Q: HOW DO WE ASSESS THE GRAVITY OF THE PANMUNJOM
INCIDENT?
A: I WOULD JUST REITERATE WHAT WE SAID IN OUR OFFICIAL
STATEMENT YESTERDAY: THAT THE USG CONSIDERS THESE ACTS
OF MURDER A SERIOUS VIOLATION OF THE ARMISTICE AGREEMENT.
FURTHER, WE VIEW THIS BRUTAL AND UNPROVOKED ASSAULT WITH
GRAVITY AND CONCERN, AND WE WARN THE NORTH KOREANS THAT
SUCH VIOLENT, BELLIGERENT ACTIONS CANNOT BE TOLERATED.
I WOULD REITERATE THAT NORTH KOREA MUST BEAR FULL
RESPONSIBILITY FOR ALL THE CONSEQUENCES OF ITS ACTIONS.
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MAN FOR USE IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS:
QUOTE:
Q: HAVE WE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH OTHER GOVERNMENTS REGARDING
THE PANMUNJOM INCIDENT?
A: WE HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH A NUMBER OF APPROPRIATE
GOVERNMENTS. WE CANNOT SPECIFY WHICH OR GO INTO THE NATURE
OF OUR COMMUNICATION.
Q: HAS THE PRESIDENT OR THE SECRETARY SENT ANY PERSONAL
MESSAGES TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS?
A : NO.
Q: HOW LONG WILL WE REMAIN ON ALERT STATUS?
A : THAT DERENDS ON THE SITUATION AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS.
Q: WHERE AND BY WHOM WAS THE DECISION TAKEN TO GO ON
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PARALLEL FILE OF DOCUMENTS OPENED FROM
UNPROCESSED COLLECTIONS (National
Security Council)
BOX NUMBER
A1
FOLDER TITLE
Korea - North Korean Tree Incident,
8/18/76 - Telegrams (1)-(3)
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TYPE OF MATERIAL
Telegram
CREATOR'S NAME
COMUSKOREA
RECEIVER'S NAME
CINCPAC
DESCRIPTION
re Panmunjom Incident
CREATION DATE
08/19/1976
VOLUME
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COLLECTION/SERIES/FOLDER ID
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COLLECTION TITLE
HENRY A. KISSINGER AND BRENT SCOWCROFT
PARALLEL FILE OF DOCUMENTS OPENED FROM
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Security Council)
BOX NUMBER
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FOLDER TITLE
Korea - North Korean Tree Incident,
8/18/76 - Telegrams (1)-(3)
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1, (S) OVERALL ASSESSMENT: AS A RESULT OF THE
UNPROVOKED, BRUTAL MURDER OF TWO U.S. OFFICERS
DURING THE 18 AUG JSA INCIDENT, CINCUNC/COMUSKOREA
DECLARED DEFCON THREE AT 190200Z. ATTAINMENT
OF ALL FORCES IS EXPECTED NLT 210200Z.
379TH MAC MEETING TOOK PLACE 1907002-
1908352 AUG * NO VIOLANCE OR UNUSUAL INCIDENTS
REPORTED, UNC OPENED
MEETING WITH STATEMENT STRONGLY CONDEMMING
THE 18 AUG INCIDENT. KPA RESPONDED WITH
DISTORTIONS OF FACT AND COMMENCED LONG
STATEMENT ALLEGING NUMEROUS UN PROVOCATIONS,
VIOLENCE, INTRODUCTION OF ILLEGAL AIRCRAFT,
AND MOVEMENT OF AIRCRAFT FROM OKINAWA TO
KOREA. UNC REPLIED THAT WE CALLED THE
MEETING TO DISCUSS SPECIFIC CHARGES
REGARDING THE MURDER OF TWO U.S.
PERSONNEL, THE MEETING WAS TERMINATED
AFTER SUMMARIES BY BOTH SIDES AND A WARNING
BY KPA THAT WAR COULD BREAK OUT AT ANY
TIME. AT 1908232 AUG PYONGYANG RADIO STATED
THAT THE "KPA SUPREME COMMANDER HAS
ORDERED ALL KPA UNITS, ALL PERSONNEL OF THE
WORKER.PEASANT MILITIAMEN AND THE RED GUARD
YOUTH UNITS TO ENTER INTO WAR POSTURE,"
GENERAL ASSESSMENT: SITUATION
IS TENSE AND SERIOUS.
2. (S-NFD) INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY: AT 1908232 RADIO PYONGYANG,
CITING THE " EMERGENCY ALERT OF U.S. ARMY UNITS IN SOUTH KOREA",
ANNOUNCED A KPA SUPREME COMMAND ORDER PLACING ALL KPA UNITS AS
WELL AS PARAMILITARY RESERVE UNITS, IN A # WAR POSTURE", GROUND
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ACTIVITY DURING THE PERIOD REFLECTED INCREASED VEHICLE AND TRACKED
VEHICLE MOVEMENT SIGHTINGS IN THE KAESONG AREA.
A. GROUND: GROUND FORCE ACTIVITY REMAINED SEASONABLY
NORMAL THROUGHOUT THE DAY. COMMENCING IN LATE AFTERNOON,
INCREASED VEHICULAR MOVEMENT WAS REPORTED AS A RESULT OF VISUAL
AND GSR OBSERVATIONS, IN THE KAESONG AREA AT 17291, RADAR
DETECTED FIFTY MILITARYPARSONNEI XDZWENTY LRACKED VEHICLES
VICINITY BS 7989191 AT 19401, FOUR ZIL-15013 WERE SIGHTED TOWING
FOUR 100MM FIELD GUNS VICINITY BS 930 9791 AT 20501 TWELVE UN -
IDENTIFIED TRACKED VEHICLES WERE SIGHTED VICINITY BT 991 068
MOVING EASTI AND, AT 2054I, TWELVE UNIDENTIFIED VEHICLES MOVING
SOUTHWEST VICINITY BT 982 058,
THOUGH UNUSUAL, THE INCREASED ACTIVITY MIGHT REASONABLY BE EX-
PECTED AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE "WAR POSTURE" ORDERED BY THE KPA
SUPREME COMMAND EARLIER TODAY,
B. NAVAL: (S/NFD) NORTH KOREAN NAVY (NKN) ACTIVITY HAS
BEEN NORMAL DURING THE PAST 24 HOURS. NO UNUSUAL DEPLOYMENTS
OR FORCE BUILD-UP HAS BEEN DETECTED OFF EITHER COAST.
C. AIR: (S/NFD) NORTH KOREAN AIR FORCE (NKAF) FLIGHT
ACTIVITY WAS LOW WITH THE ONLY FLYING REFLECTED BEING CIVIL AIR
BUREAU LIn2'S CONDUCTING DOMESTIC FLIGHTS. VERY POOR FLYING
WEATHER IN NORTH KOREA DURING ENTIRE PERIOD. IT WAS REPORTED
THE BEGINNING AT APPROXIMATELY 12001, NKAF FORCES ASSUMED AN
INCREASED READINESS POSTURE AT THE FOLLOWING AIRFIELDS: ONCHON,
CHANGJIN, HWANGJU, KOKSAN, PUKCHANG, HOEMIN-NI, UIJU, WONSAN,
SINMUSONG, SUNAN, AND TAETAN, AT 15201, PYONGGANG SAM SITE WAS
REFLECTED ASSUMING AN INCREASED ALERT POSTURE IN PROBABLE REACTION
TO A GIANT SCALE MISSION BEING FLOWN CER THE ROK,
D. THREAT ASSESSMENT: ALTHOUGH NORTH KOREA HAS INCREASED
ITS ALERT POSTURE, NO LARGE SCALE MILITARY UNIT MOVES
OR REINFORCEMENT OF OMZ UNITS HAVE BEEN DETECTED. THE ALERT IS
AN OVERT, WELL PUBLICIZED MOVEI HOWEVER, THE ACT IS A HIGHLY
UNUSUAL EVENT, APPARENTLY TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO THE INCREASED
ALERT STATUS OF U.S. FORCES, REPOSITIONING AND REINFORCEMENT
OF DMZ UNITS AND INCREASED ACTIVITY ON THE PART OF THE AIR
AND NAVAL UNITS MAY BE EXPECTED.
3. (S) OPERATIONAL SUMMARY
A. GROUND: APPROXIMATELY NINETY FIVE PERCENT OF GROUND UNITS
HAVE ATTAINED DEFCON THREE.
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(1) DEFCON THREE ATTAINED 1916102 BY CNPK STAFF, POHANG
DETACHMENT AND CHINHAE FAC. ROKN/ROKMC UNITS UNDER CNFK OPCON
WILL ATTAIN WITHIN NEXT 24 HOURS, WITH EXCEPTION OF ACTIONS
TAKEN TO ATTAIN DEFCON THREE, NO SIGNIFICANT OPS/ACTIVITIES
HAVE TAKEN PLACE.
(2) TG 77.4 CONSISTING OF MIDWAY, GRIDLEY, COOK,
HAMMOND, AND KIRK PLACED ON ALERT TO DEPLOY TO KOREA STRAIT ETD
2023002, ASSEMBLY SEA OF JAPAN 48 HOURS AFTER DEPARTURE YOKOSUKA.
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(1) PORCE GENERATION POSTURE IS AS FOLLOWS:
(A) USAF
BASE
NBR/TYPE ACFT
ALERT STATUS
OSAN
4/F4E
0110 CAIR DEF)
OSAN
4/F4E
#:30 (AIR DEF)
OSAN
4/0V-10 (2NITE )
0:10
OSAN
4/0V=10 (2NITE)
1 HOUR
KUNSAN
4/F4D
0:15 (CLOSE AIR SPT)
KUNSAN
8/F4D
1 HOUR (CLOSE AIR SPT)
KUNSAN
2/F4C
0/15 (WILD WEASEL)
(8) ROKAF AIR DEFENSE
KIMPO
2/F86
0105
KANGNUNG
4/F5A
0185
KWANGJU
6/F5A/E
5185
KWANGJU
12/F5A/E
0:15
KWANGJU
2/F86
0:05
KWANGJU
4/785
0:15
SEOUL
2/F86
0105
SEOUL
4/F86
0:15
SUWON
2/F4D (DAY&NIGHT)
0108
SUWON
4/F5A/E
0:03
SUWON
2/F5A/E
0:05
TAEGU
4/F4D (DAY&NIGHT)
0:08
TAEGU
6/F4D (DAY&NIGHT)
0:15
KUNSAN
4/F86F
8188
KUNSAN
2/F86F
0115
KUNSAN
4/F4D (DAY&NIGHT)
0:10
OSAN
8/F4E (DAY&NIGHT)
0:10
OSAN
B/F4E
0115
(C) ROKAF AIR TD-GROUND
SUWON
8/F5A/B
0115
SUMON
4/F5A/8
0:30
KANGNUNG
4/F5A/B
1 HOUR
SEOUL
8/F86
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KWANGJU
4/F5A/B
0:30
KHANGJU
4/FSA/8
1 HOUR
KUNSAN
4/F86
1 HOUR
TAEGU
2/F40
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TAEGU
2/F4D
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SUBJECT: PRESIDENT PAK SPEAKS OUT ON PANMUNJOM INCIDENT
BEGIN SUMMARY: PRESIDENT SHARPLY ATTACKS NORTH KOREA FOR
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1. ON AUGUST 20, MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENSE so CHONG-CHOL
READ MILITARY ACADEMY COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT PAK IN
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WHICH HE DESCRIBED PANMUNJOM INCIDENT OF AUGUST 18, CALLING
NORTH KOREAN INVOLVEMENT "COLLECTIVE MURDER".
2, AT GRADUATION CEREMONY OF ROK THIRD MILITARY ACADEMY,
PRESIDENT'S SPEECH SAID "A MAD DOG NEEDS A STICK" AND THERE
IS NO REASON THAT (ROK) ALWAYS HAS TO BE UNILATERALLY
PROVOKED BY NORTH KOREANS. HE SAID "OUR PATIENCE IS LIMITED.
FROM NOW ON, IF THEY COMMIT UNLAWFUL PROVOCATIONS AGAINST US,
WE WILL HAVE TO TAKE IMMEDIATE PUNITIVE ACTIONS, WHETHER SMALL
OR LARGE, AND ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS SHALL BE BORNE BY
NORTH KOREAN COMMUNISTS THEMSELVES."
3. PAK ALSO SUGGESTED IN SPEECH THAT SUCH PROVOCATIONS AS ONE
AT PANMUNJOM WERE NORTH KOREAN MEANS OF CONCEALING ITS
"ECONOMIC BANKRUPTCY" AND ITS "SERIOUS (INTERNAL) POWER
STRUGGLE." HE SAID THAT NORTH HAS SENT ARMED AGENTS SOUTH TO
DESTROY ROK DEFENSES BUT FAILED, AND ALSO NOTED MACHINE GUN
FIRING BY NORTH KOREAN GUARDS ON AUGUST 5,
4, IN SUMMARY, HE ASKED ROK PEOPLE TO BUILD UP TOTAL
SECURITY SYSTEM AND THAT ALL SHOULD UNIFY INCLUDING "FRONT,
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