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In 1979-80, Korean President Park Chung Hee was assassinated, a new strongman seized power, student protests were crushed, and military brutality in Kwangju City provoked a massive uprising. Despite a powerful military and economic presence, the United States did not respond with major sanctions for fear of endangering South Korea's security. Koreans eventually accommodated themselves to the new regime, as did the United States. Deeply engaged but only marginally effective, the U.S. role disappointed some reformers and often angered upstart leaders.
Using extensive documentation, William H. Gleysteen Jr. (U.S. Ambassador during that period) examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policies -- conceived in abstraction from East Asian realities -- contributed to Park's demise. He reviews U.S. behavior in the subsequent crisis, discussing such problems as inadequate intelligence, the dilemma of military and economic leverage too powerful to use, the constraints of constitutional authority, and the dangers of dealing with authorities who monopolize local communications and shamelessly distort the truth. The author suggests that some lessons are relevant beyond Korea, for example, in our treatment of human rights problems in China today.
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