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1. Attached is a memorandum of conversation held on November 9, ae hte See

1962, by Mr. KIM To-yon, most recent Chairman of the New Democratic .

Party and former Minister of Finance, Mr. Philip Habib, Counselor of

Embassy for Political Affairs, and Mr. Gregory Henderson, Second Secre-

tary, U.S. Embassy.

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2. Mr. Kim is leader of one of the older and more cohesive
political groups in Korea, tracing itself directly back to the Hankuk
Democratic Party, one of the first important non-commmnist political
parties to emerge after Korea's liberation from Japanese domination.

He and most of his associates are presently exluded from politi
e. the terms of the government's Political Purification Law of March
1962.

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| 3. Mr. Kim testifies to the present government's rel ce to
consult Korea's former politicians, let alone to elicit the coapera-
tion. He believes that the government's general unpopularity _pouya be
likely to result in its defeat in any fair contest with a wel ordipised
civilian political party but that the government gives few siggis o
allowing a contest of any fairness. Nevertheless, Mr. Kim bel ives
that older political groups should make the best bid they can, “this
bid, clearly, to take the form of a coalition of the several major rival
civilian political groups existing in the past. Such party could win
wide success with two major platforms: - economic, centering around the
haste and wastefulness of the government's economic programs; and
political, centering around opposition to the continuation of military
government and its system of repressions and harrassments.

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