FOREIGN RADIO COMMENTS RELATED TO THE SITUATION IN KOREA

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 183
• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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zbIT8~DC1TT0A: There has 'been a? ooneiderab3,T greater m>uaborl of monitored Soviet-Caaaraniet
ootm~onte Idtiri>ag appro=imatelT the past 24'hours thaw at aa,T Limo since tho Nor4h Soroan
inrador? launched [hair attache. Koet important, haao~er, ie tho groater irognenoJ and
in4enei'r~ of etatemonte trhioh appear to rofleot an attitude of 3aoroaeing throat and
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bt111~a~~nd an increased ozpeotation of general xar. lihothor or not'theee etatomente arc
funotione o! definite So~1et-Coamunlet intoontlane !.n the operation llold (ae dietino~6 troa-
the hold f propaganda), thoT do ouggeet a more direct effort 'Cc: prepare the Con?Iale4
~rorl4 !or !rliko oTOntualitiee. Oa t2ra other hand, tho7 mad bo related,prinaril,T 1o too
fearaonger tag garpoeee that are la:pllo~it la ? xar of aerree. 61do by aide xith such alraLe-
>oenta, So~~~ot-Coamcanlet propag+anQa oontiauea to plug the "peaool'~oaupaign"; but e~-en bore
the issue o! A>aerloan "aggreoeion" aga3ae~C 8oroa 1e amphaelZed oe eonorwhing the "paaoe
?portleane" ~i>oQe1c fight. Ta eftools, the' "peaoo campaign" 1e nox we much oonoerned xilh
>loob111z1ng opinion opoolfioallf a?a1nn~ [hie "aggression"--"hands Off Saroa"--ae it Se x~th
ezoueing wZ-~agonlen toxard America to "eggroeeiTe, xar-preparing ',po].io~-" 1n eonoral and xith
oeouriug eiigotturae to t2{e 8tookholn "peaoo" Appeal. ~~,
PSYCSOJA4TCAL M~iTLIZATIOA IN TRL COlMlOFTBT NORLD? FSAItDIOAC}Bt2TND: S'~idonoee of
Pxopag~andie~tia counter-t2}roate and be111gorenoe tauelyd the Amerl'aan "aggressors" and of
oolgoern xit~i the poeaib111'ty~ of general xar acne frcn dl~errse oouroee in the Com>mzniet
xorld, ae 1leted belax.
A 8oT1eL'-controlled Bonin oosmaontaitor' Bare. that the anee-er tO the question of xhethar
or not ~~ ie "inevitable" depende'on tha "people."' Tt 1t dapondod On Truban, a1o.,
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"they xar xould have at~rtad lcag ejgv." Tho onl,~ t1:.~~; thaL has prevented it to dens lihre
beeathe "poxerful groxth of tUa peaa~?.aovement.'~ Bat the commentator wrns that nearly
all of us... have underrrted the gravity of the ~~,;?aat ~~f Krr. This nndoroetimatioa...
ie undoubtedly duo to an undere8tlmate of the agQ eaeive chrraotor of II.S. imperialism.
The per+,ant thing nox it to correct this Pault rd .luickly and ae xadioally ae poeel~bla."
According to Rrdio Rome, Togliatti hoe xrittan a UIVITA article xhioh, "baeeQ on obscure
prom~.eee,. assorts that the etrte of affairs iw~liea that the third xorldlxax has begun.
'But he does not enlarge the themrJ
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A Rn$io Sofia report of the Bulgarian ceremonine marking Cho anniversary of'IDimitrov'e
death gaotes the address by Bulgarian Communist leader Zhivkov, xho implloiLl3* posse the
poes~ibility of xar in the folloxirig terms: "If... the An o-U S. im erialists do not form
? oorreol< and sober netimate of the. international situation related to gores snd t to
unlearh ? nex xar.... Bee section on oounter-threr e, belox, for hie ansxer.
A aiinilar implication is contained in a Radio Budapest commentary xhioh, ia'the oontext
of attention to the Korean eituaLion, considers the question of xhat rill happen "l.fthe
eo lee must shod their blood ...if the im eriali.ste violrte saes...." (Bee section on
oou~ter-throats, belox, for hielanexer.
Bov'..ot commentator Kudriavtsev charges that the Amerioane exploited their occupation of
Bouth Some "for turning it... into a military bridgehead Por attacks against northern
gorew, into,a base for a~eeoion against the ii58R and Chine." (It should ,be noted that
Sovilet propaganda has quite frequently charged that the Americana xere preparing bordering
"bridgeheads" against the U~48E sad its Batoilitee. But Hudriavteov le the first Boviet
commentator to have repeated thie''oharge in discussions of the present gorean eituationa
Tho Soviet-oontrollad 7.oipzig radio quotes the Communist leader U].brioht as' "dbananding
Cho inteneificrtion of the onlightenmont campaign for peaoo in viox of Cho iII.B: inter-
vention in &rrea" and as "ottaoking Cho ? outs of U.S mono o as italiem~xho... are
trysi-gto incite to xar in the torritor9 of the German Demooratio Ropublla.~ And in
conrieation xith Ulbricht'e charge that U.S. imperialism ie preparing anot2~ier xar," ho
advi~,see that "the BED should make every effort to prevent a nex era of hostility between
Ger~aany and the Peoplo'e Deiaocraoies.") ~'
Ano~har Leipzig broadcast, charging that the "U.S. imperial2c+te are employing the saline
taot~ioe against the goroan pocplo~ae they employed against the German civilian population
in the last war," declares that "they xould not hesitate in the least to d.~, the lama
agaii- ta~-ard Cho Gorman oivillane! "
A Prague radio attack against American "aggroesioa in Karen" oitos the "Flestern use of the
Cola~ado bbetle" against Czechoel'ovakia ae "an act of xar and no longer oo1~d xar."
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TASB~, reporting Soviet protest meoting~e and "demands that"the American aggr~leseorr bejcurb-d,"
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