The History of South Korea

New President Pakchung-hee was born a peasant and actually was once targeted as a leftist by Singman Rhee's regime. He had for years worked in military intelligence, so the CIA worried he may have been a crypto-communist. Under Pakch and his colonels, there would be a new anti-communist law to supplement Rhee's old national security law. The period from 1965 to 1971 is one of rapid economic growth and comparative political stability.