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United Nations Use of Mass Communications in Korea, 1950–1951

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Leon Gordenker
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In divided Korea before the hostilities of June 1950, the thirty-eighth parallel marked a break in communications almost as sharp as the political separation. No direct diplomatic channels have existed between north and south since the second World War.

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International Organization , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , August 1954 , pp. 331 - 345
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1954

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References

1 General Assembly resolutions 195(111) and 293(IV).

2 General Assembly, Official Records (5th session). Supplement 16, p. 15. Hereafter cited as UNCOK Report, 1950. The year before, UNCOK had also set up a subcommittee with similar aims. It failed to make a single broadcast because of a disagreement with the Korean Office of Public Information over theproposed text. See General Assembly, Official Records (4th session), Supplement 9, p. 7.

3 UNCOK Report, 1950, p. 17.

4 Anup Singh, of India, and A. B. Jamieson, of Australia. United Nations Press Release KOR/48, February 21, 1949.

5 UNCOK Report, 1950, p. 3.

6 Memorandum dated October 20, 1950. The author of this article, however, assumes the responsibility for statements made here, many of which are based on his own notes and others on interviews.

7 UNCOK Report, 1950, p. 31.

8 Barrett, Edward, Truth la Our Weapon, New York, Funk and Wagnalls, 1953, p. 94Google Scholar.

9 “Psychological Warfare in Korea, an Interim Report,” Public Opinion Quarterly, XV (Spring 1951), p. 65 fGoogle Scholar. No author is listed for this article which was “compiled on the basis of material released to the press by the Far East Command”.

10 See Human Resources Research Institute, Air University, A Preliminary Study of the Impact of Communism Upon Korea, Psychological Warfare Research Report No. 1 (Unclassified) (Mimeographed), p. 77. This material, in Chapter 2, was prepared largely by Wilbur Schramm and John W. Riley, Jr. See also their The Reds Take a City, New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1951Google Scholar, and their article with Williams, Frederick W., “Flight from Communism: A Report on Korean Refugees,” Public Opinion Quarterly, XV (Summer 1951)Google Scholar.

11 He told the General Assembly in 1951, for example, that “despite the heavy loss of life, the tragedy and suffering involved, I consider that one of the most encouraging developments of the past year for the preservation of world peace has been the United Nations collective security action in Korea.” General Assembly, Official Records (6th session), Supplement 1A, p. 5. See also Schwebel, Stephen M., The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1953, p. 104–110Google Scholar.

12 General Assembly resolution 376(V).

13 General Assembly, Official Records (6th session), Supplement 12, p. 4. Cited hereafter as UNCURK Report.

14 UNCURK Report, p. 10.

15 Memorandum, dated March 5, 1951, Pusan, Korea.

16 UNCURK Report, p. 10–11.