FOREIGN REACTIONS TO THE KOREAN SITUATION AND THE PRESIDENT'S DECISION NO 2

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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 180
• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT MCIptE1GN RRACTIORS TO TU KdRSAN
? 3:rrTi ATION AND THE FMIDeNT'8 DECISION, No. 2
DATE DIST. 30 Jun 1.90
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SUPPLEMENT TO
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REPORT NO.
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION'
`~: "DI~PY2w: A flood of Western-oriented comment approached unanimity in support u_? he
Pre old N_,.n lei P'hiotorio d.ecielon."Among other things, his "feru,raeohing initiati7&IA end
"?ralaol+vte attitudes" are praised as showing that "Truman has shouldered his respor:?otl:. L1 itles
to t Kire,6t etateamen. ", Some of the comment continues to be tempered by expreirairn).o of
unesalrvsvo al-vat the possibility of a larger vrar, but such expressions are
ct~nai~llrratr'~ly
inerH ```: a .r++~?t and Leas fearful then was the case
prior to the decision. Realistic
leppYrytciete of the risks involved are paralleled by determined relief that tber frso vor1.1
i f'"T>ejl y -making a stand against Communist aggression. A now element of Western 1,unes*alnesv,
k.,-v '?pmr, -mss to do with the "slowness of the results from the American Intervention." And
at least. one Etoviot-oontrolled source (Radio Leipzig) has boasted ah04it the North ICE i en
`I''i.iatoi-ims vTograssn despite the use of American planes.
gres? despite the use of American planes. Padicek!nscov distributes, without comment, the official Soviet reply to the or!aI.nn1
IT.11. real>bvtior. on Korea. Yesterday 'a ,FRAVDA article oontinuee to be widely w,rz'oedr.?est;n
T% o ~"cn.?it,t radio?s only~ other independent comments have been in the form of another } ' VL)n
artiol^ and a TABS dispatch, both designed to demonstrate that the "American-direetndIA
Scu th I*r''"++e?7 attempt "to invade the north was preceded by le
ngtby and intensive aciazu.
Xonit;rre t North Korean broadcasts have not yet mentioned the President's decision. Pyor ir,ang
Aces =oh of Scoul's capture. Satellite radios, especially in Eastern Germany, cy ontiruae
their feaxnaongoring campaign to arouse the "peace part1,Iaans" against Truman's most reoant
attempt "to kindle a third vorid war." They hey to the limo that the alleged South Eorcen
:111"valsic", o:f the north head boon long prepared by ~appr periailsts and that the
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