From wharms@soback.kornet.nm.kr
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 04:52:30 -0900
From: Bill Harms 
To: moogoonghwa@UCSD.EDU
Subject: Re: Reactions

At 09:31 AM 9/23/96 -0700, Korea Information & Resource Center/Korea Report
wrote:
>Another thought:
>
>US authorities are also refraining from making any judgments on this 
>incident until "complete picture of what happened" is assessed.

I don't think we will ever get a complete picture of what happened.

>We should do that too since SK authorities are basing their conjectures 
>and theories solely on testimonies of , the captured NK 
>agent, who talked after few bottles of soju (since when alcohol was 
>used instead of torture to get information out of espionage agent?). SK 
>interrogators admit that they cannot confirm Lee's testimonies. 
>Normally captured espionage agents on military mission are executed. 
>But perhaps Lee will follow the fate of Kim SHin Jo, the sole survivor 
>of the 1968 "Commando Raid in CHunghwadae(Blue House)" who was spared 
>life and who eventually became a born-again Christian minister.
>
I find it interesting the level of credence the South authorities are giving
the Lee Kwang Soo statements. The headline in the 24 September "Stars and
Stripes" states that "5 or 6 agents (are) at large." From what I see this is
based entirely on Lee's statement. I guess maybe the South authorities are
just taking precautions just in case he is right.

Bill Harms 
Seoul, Korea




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