Rhee's violent temperament is well documented. For some reason,
Rhee's 'kill Americans' rage is seldom mentioned.
The reference cited below was published by Chosun Ilbo, the most
conervative and pro-US newspaper in Seoul.
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English-Korean Cartoon History of the Korean War
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英韓對譯과 만화로 읽는 6·25 戰爭史 41장면
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http://monthly.chosun.com/html/200005/200005220017_1.html
"As the invaders neared Seoul, the capital of the young republic which had
been established only two years before, President Rhee could not sleep the
first night of the invasion. Bad news kept coming in from the front lines and
a North Korean fighter plane even strafed an area near Kyungmoodae, the
presidential mansion. At 3 a.m., Monday, President Rhee called for General
MacArthur. A duty officer picked up the phone and asked the South Korean
president to call later because the general was soundly asleep.
¡°If you don¡¯t waken the general, American citizens will die one by one
while the general sleeps in peace!¡± Rhee, a Princeton Unviersity Ph.D. who
had lived forty years in the United States, shouted in his fluent English. The
president¡¯s rage made the duty officer waken the general.
Rhee told MacArthur, ¡°If your country had been a little more concerned
about us, we would not have come to this plight. Haven¡¯t we warned you many
times? Now you must save our country!¡±
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