Re: A History Question

["ysk" <ysk@kimsoft.com>]

Thanks for the info, Ed:

Apparently Lee and some other communists from SK wanted to set up their own
gov.  They were not pro-US (actually, they were as much anti-US as Kim Il
Sung was), but used Uncle Sam to further their self interests, and the US CI
folks knew how to use these communist opportunists.

I have another question:

One of Lee's associates, tried and excruciated, was Sol Chong Sik, who was
graduated from Mount Union College and Columbia University in the US. He had
worked for the Information Bureau of the US Military Government in Korea
from 1945 to 1948. He fled to North in 1948 and was the chief North Korean
interpreter at the armistice talks in July 1951. Sol was born on September
18, 1912, and attended Yonsei University in Seoul prior to his education in
America.

Some SK archives state that Sol was the Korean American woman, Alice Hyun,
who was deported (dispatched?) in 1951 (?).  Alice was executed.

Any info on Sol or Alice - were they one and the same or two different
persons?


ysk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Evanhoe" <ede@oio.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ukans.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: A History Question


YS,

 >>At 06:02 PM 2/3/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Lee Sung Yup, Kim Il Sung's minister of justice, was executed for treason
in
>1953.  One of the charges against him was that he was an American spy,
>which Western historians believe outlandish. However, a recent research by
>a South Korean historian shows otherwise.<<

No information here other than I heard rumors that Lee was working for us,
this was after the war.  Any solid information is probably still under seal
to protect others who helped Lee in case these people are still alive in NK.

Ed

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