Evening star., 1943-01-13
Korean Explains
Jap Strategy to
Church Society
League REPRESENTATIVE
Declares Nibbonese
UfiHsing Conquesfs
By Gretchen Smith.

The belief that Japan should be
knocked out" before the United Ma
tions concentrate on an offensive
in Europe, was expressed by Kiloo
HAN, Korean nationalist and
Washington representative of the
Sino-Korean Peoples League, yes
terday.
Speaking before the Women's So
ciety of the First Conversational
Church, Mr.. Ham, who has given
years OF study to the military STRAIT
egy Of the Japanese and their OBJ
jectives, based his statements on
confidential information received
through members of the Sino-
Korean Peoples League as well as
information obtained through per-
sonal contacts. Speaking Japanese
f1uently, Mr.. Ham was at one time
on the Japanese consular staff in
Hawaii.
The United Nations should at
tack Japan before she has too
strong a foothold in India" the
speaker declared.
Strategic Advantage.
With the great British drydocks
OF Singapore and the United States
dewey Drydock" in the Philippines
repaired and operating for the Jap
anese, the latter already have a
strategic advantage over the United
States with ship repair facilities
close at hand, he contended
Japan is working "feverishly" now
to establish a two-track railroad
from Southern China through
French Indo-China' to Singapore,
Mr.. Ham asserted. If that line is
once consolidated Japan will not
need the merchant marine now re-
quired to transport supplies nor the
number of naval vessels for their
convoy, he said. These vessels, he
pointed out, could then be used in
other places against the United
Nations.
With SO per cent of her chemical
plants in Korea and large percent
age of her airplane assembling
centers now transferred to Batavia,
Japan can carry on for a much
longer period if she completes the
railroad being constructed, the
speaker added.
Weakest Points.
The United Nations should strike
at once at Japan's weakest point,
the Kuril Islands, he advised The
enemy is fighting desperately to
hold her position in the Aleutians,
realizing that is the weakest point
in her defense of Japan proper, he
said. The Alaskan highway now al
most completed should be used by
the United States to rush supplies
and build up strong air bases in
Alaska to be used now as base IN
an offensive, Mr.. Ham continued.
An important source Of Japan's
strength is her ability to refuel sub
emrged submarines, the speaker ex-
planned lowering of distant
coast, Mr.. Ham asserted. japanese
submarines are able to obtain fuel
from sympathetic persons of those
countries who transfer fuel and
other necessities in fishing vessels to
submarines. A special container
shot up to the surface by the sub
marine receives the supplies, the
speaker explained. He added that
Japan has many submarines suf-
f1ciently large to transport both
troops and planes and expressed his
opinion that many reinforcements
to the Solomons have been trans
ported by submarines.
Strong In Marshalls.
There are enemy submarine bases
In several of the Marshall and Caro-
line Islands," he declared. The
speaker tod how information on
these bases had been obtained by
two loyal Koreans who, posing as
Japanese, served with the south
western Japanese fishing fleet In
1887 and personally saw cement
foundations for big guns and tun-
nels for submarines and seaplanes
installed on seven distinct islands
In this group,
Japan Is strong, Mr. Haan con-
tinued, but her fighting men can
not compare with those Of the
United Nations.
In spite of the apparent indom-
table courage of the japanese they
can't fight as the American soldier
with a Christian spirit and the
knowledge of what he is fighting
for" he declared.
Reiterating his statement that the
United States knock out Japan
now," the speaker declared that If
Japan can consolidate her present