S. Korea Orders Purge of Dissident Journalists

The Washington Post, 1980-07-31

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• South Korea's martial-law government purges journalists who resisted press controls
• Claim 189: The government ordered all South Korean newsmen and broadcasters who had resisted censorship or sought freedom of the press to be purged from their jobs by August 10, 1980.
• Claim 190: The government said nothing was more important than maintaining national security against North Korea and preserving domestic order and peace.

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