Volume 22, Number 16 · October 16, 1975
The Kim Chi Ha Case
By Bruce Cumings
In our article on South Korea's dissident poet, Kim Chi Ha [NYR, August 7, 1975], who was arrested in March 1975, Frank Baldwin and I suggested that Kim's alleged confessions of communist sympathies must be evaluated against the specific conditions obtaining under Park Chung Hee's repressive rule. For in Park's regime, such confessions are routinely wrung from political prisoners by means of torture. Since the appearance of the article, Kim has validated the substance of our remarks.
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