ASSEMBLY HITS AT RHEE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27075, 25 June 1953, Page 9

ASSEMBLY HITS AT RHEE

(Rec. 12.20 a.m.) PUSAN, June 24. The South Korean National Assembly today decided to call the Prime Minister, Mr Paik Too Chin, and three other Cabinet Ministers before it on Sunday next to explain why Dr. Rhee ignored United Nations authority by releasing the non-Communist North Korean prisoners. Seventy-eight of the 100 members present voted in favour of the move an .2j-he remainder abstained. One member of the Assembly, who U a supporter of Dr. Rhee, Mr Pae Un «ui, who is also on the Assembly’s special cease-fire committee, said he Wa ? amazed at Dr. Rhee’s “drastic action in releasing the prisoners.” e was * n accordance with ISm a ssem ’°ly resolution which had caned for the release of non-Commun- , prisoners, “tut we have to know er w bat circumstances the prisoners were released when it meant ignoring the United Nations authority.” <_ &lx youths last night slashed the ears of the South Korean opposition leader, Dr. Cho Pyung, in s ®°ul hide-out where he went tif!n r i attacked Dr. Rhee’s opposiKorea l ° P r °P°sed armistice in His condition is not serious. • x a mob of 600 demonstrators 2J? to r - Cho’s home in Seoul. brn£ n they, found nobody home, they hiture Wln dows and smashed the furJf* 0 is 6 °- is so far the b, y J?P ut {) Korean politician to attack U lthee ‘ opposition to the armis-