KOREA TRUCE CRISIS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27073, 23 June 1953, Page 9

KOREA TRUCE CRISIS

U.N. Leader Sees Dr. Rhee

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) ( R ec ; 11.30 pan.) SEOUL, June 22. General Mark Clark, the United Nations Com-mander-in-Chief, sounded a hopeful note in the Korean truce crisis today when he reported an “encouraging conversation’’ with South Korea’s President, Dr. Syngman Rhee. ’ i? k G « ei Tw ral C J ar JS and ** iB diplomatic adviser, Mr Rb^ rt Jh« r h hy ’ fl f W SeOul for a critica l meeting with Dr. Korea " h refused 10 accept a truce that would divide ciizn Ge To a * G,ark *°J d reporters tha t he was authorised to a „ Ko J. ean armistice even if South Korea did not agree to it. He did not say whether he would sign the truce “that depends on instructions from my Government,” he said. . *!* b t f ° re the Dr - Rhee had warned he would withdraw his army of almost half a million men if the present truce agreement was signed.

General Clark talked with Dr. Rhee for 70 minutes in the Presidential mansion, after a preliminary conference with Lieutenant-General William Harrison, the chief United Nations truce negotiator, and other American officers.