Former President Chun Doo-hwan had asked U.S. for help to take control of power right after...

Former President Chun Doo-hwan had asked U.S. for help to take control of power right after December 12 military rebellion
12•12 직후 전두환 만난 미대사 "全, 군부 장악에 美도움 원해"

Classified documents provided to South Korea by the U.S. State Department revealed new evidence related to the Gwangju Pro-democracy Movement of May 1980.
That former President Chun Doo-hwan asked Washington for help in regaining control of the military.
Hong Yoo tells us more.
Documents provided by the U.S. State Department have shed more light on what happened before and during the May 18th Pro-Democracy Movement... and the bloody crackdown by the military government at the time.
The documents show that soon after the military takeover five months before by then-General Chun Doo-hwan, Chun spoke with the U.S. ambassador, William Gleysteen, and according to Gleysteen, tried to convince him that what he had done was not a military coup.
Rather, Chun claimed, he was attempting to finish the investigation into who had assassinated President Park Chung-hee that October.
Ambassador Gleysteen reported that conversation to Washington, and asked for help reining in Chun's military regime.
The documents also reveal another of Gleysteen's conversations, this one with then Chief of Staff, Choi Kwang-soo.
Speaking just a day before the pro-democracy movement began in Gwangju, Gleysteen told Choi that the regime was being too harsh.
Choi said the military was reluctant, however, to accept the demands of the students and protesters as Chun allegedly wanted them to.
The next day, Gleysteen was told by the martial law commander General Lee Hee-sung... that if the movement wasn't controlled, then South Korea could succumb to communism like Vietnam.
These documents from the U.S. were requested by the South Korean foreign ministry last November for the use of private organizations researching the Gwangju pro-democracy movement.
And according to an official at the foreign ministry,... it will continue to ask the U.S. for more such documents.
Hong Yoo, Arirang News.

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