Evening star., 1953-01-28
Allies Blame
Red edNegotidtors
For Prison Riots
U. N. Command Calls
Gems. Nam and Lee
Responsible for Koje
BY the Assoeioted Press

TOKYO, Jan. 28.-The United
Nations command today charged
the two top Communist armi-
Stice negotiators with direct
responsibility" for bloody pris-
oner of war riots on Koje and
Cheju Islands.
The UNC quoted captured
Communist documents and al
lied intelligence reports in di-
rectly blaming North Korean
Gen. Nam II, senior Red delegate
to the suspended talks, and his
deputy, Gen. Lee Sang Cho.
The allies said the uprisings
which cost the lives of more than
200 Red prisoners, were part of
the Communist campaign on
the second front of the Korean
war"
Dual Functions Defined.
In its lengthy statement, the
UNC said Nam and Lee had dual
functions:
l. To represent the Reds at
the truce parleys.
2. "Covertly and more impor-
tant. to mastermind the Incl
dents within UNC prisoner Of
war camps"
The UNC previously said the
Communist high command di-
rected the riots. But this was
the first time it named the nego-
tiatorS as inStigatorS.
"These two generals and their
fanatical followers have exploited
a new era of total war;" the UNC
charged.
The statement spelled out in
detail steps it said the Reds took
to organize the riots.
Planting Admitted.
MANY prisoners captured by
the u. N. forces have admitted
they were deliberate plants, dis
patched to penetrate the prison
camps at Koje, where they were
to establish cell organization
committees in each camp" the
statement asserted.
It declared there was direct
chain of command from the
armiStice negotiatorS right down
to individual compounds in the
prisoner camps.
Leader of the Reds on Koje
was a North Korean listed as
Pvt. John Moon Il. However,
the UNC said, fellow prisoners
identified him as PAX Sang |
Hyon, one of the original SO
Soviet-trained Koreans brought !
into North Korea in 1945 to set
up puppet regime. Gen. Nam
II and Kim II Sung, North Ko-
rean Premier, were in the same
group
The UNC said PAX controlled
all compounds on Koje and "sen-
fenced to death many of the
prisoners who def1ed the party
directives."
Feel They Hold Control.
The Allied statement declared:
"The Communists consider all
prisoners held in UNC camps to
be soldiers still under their con-
troll but physically detained tenn
porarily by the UNC."
It further charged the Red
high command began in 1852 to
plan the prisoner uprisings with
a two-fold purpose:
81. Mass mutinieS, riots and
breakouts which had as their
goal an eventual linkup with
Communist guerrillas and ban
dts in South Korea.
"2. Direct violence designed to
produce propaganda which might
influence the armistice negotia-
tions at Panmunjom."
The UNC said the Reds or
ganized a special unit to train
prison camp agents and furnish
Intelligence to the Communist
armistice negotiators.
It declared "the unit was at
tached to the headquarters Of
the North Korean army and was
under the supervision of Gen.
Nam II.
The UNC reported it had a
"hand-written Communist sum-
mary" of the attempted mass
breakout at Pongam December
IA in which IS civilian internees
were killed and 113 wounded.
Regarding Koje, the captured
document also claimed a victory
and said the prisoners "lost
nothing but their lives in the