MILITARY COUP IN SOUTH KOREA
U.S. States Support For Ousted Government
(N.Z. Preu A ssociatlun—Copyright) SEOUL, May 16. The Seoul radio announced today that martial law had been declared, throughout South Korea after a revolutionary military junta seized power. Fhc . broadcast said martial law was declared by the chairman of a revolutionary committee, Lieutenant-General Chang Do Young, at 9 a.m. local time, said the Associated Press. Armed troops moved into Seoul in a blaze of gunfire before daybreak and the junta announced over the radio a short time later that it had seized control in a swift coup. The United States Embassy in Seoul issued a statement expressing strong support for the “freely-elected and constitutionally-established Government” of the South Korean Prime Minister, Dr. John Chang.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29515, 17 May 1961, Page 15
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