UNCLASSIFIED 'I'ELIDJN Mr Habih SecretaJ y Kissinger RELEASED IN PART B6 August 24 1976 Tirre 8 34 p m K Did you see our friends today H Yes K What did they say I did They don•' t interfere with other peoples affairs Then they said they invited him in 1974 and reextended the invitation and they naturally had a right to invite people they wanted 'Ibis was all in tenus of creating a good relationship That is why they invited him - for good relations I referred tD the points and they said of course they Uuld do everything that was appropriate tD see the guests were well treated I said sarethi ng to the effect that while they had a right to invite anyone they wished they must rerrember this is an election year and these people had a bias and if they were talking about appropriate treatxrent there was a question of hc1N this infonnation Krul d be used H K This was stated as a personal view Yes There was no one in the roan with rre am I said this was rey personal view Then I rebutted and he rebutted I said we have noted your responses and we will see how this canes out Quite friendly - good social chit-chat before hand and afterwards H K They will understand H I think the message is loud and clear K It had to be done Your fonnal dealings in Seoul full of the u s backdown H ' hat is our cute friends playing games I think a little word is well the whole press is I think we mve to serrl Snieder in enough K I want him not to say how can you get B-52's • u s support -- Nell when we went in with I went thorugh that whole thing with their Ambassador today Snieder in H K And quietly read the note we sent to the tbrth Koreans We will get This is after Park told us three times not to do anything but cut the tree down Once he saw the North Korean • s were leary he wanted you to do sanething rrore Those are tough bastards H K I wanted to do rrore UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY APPEALS REVIEW PANEL APPEAL ACTION RELEASED IN FULL DATE CASE ID 23 MAY 2005 200102979 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE REVIEW AUTHORITY ROBERT H MILLER DATE CASE ID 3 MAR 2003 200102979 UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED - 2But we are not going to tell them that H Of course K Will you tell them we are outraged H I spoke that way to the Ambassador but I don't know whether our Ambassador will speak that way to Park K You tell him doesn't anyone do what they are told any nore Everyone sucks up to the guy whose country they are in toughen this one H K Will you send one rressage out there and say press campa ign 'Je let's see if 'Je can are extremely annoyed by this H Alright K Considering that they threatened caution to begin with H And their second stage of counsel was to seek assurances K can you H Yes K And tell Snieder we expect him to be finn H Yes K You sound enthusiastic H He will do it if he gets a start · He is not one of xey favorite Ambassadors make that clear I will get it out tonight He may be one of yours K Only because I fired him off the NSC staff H You feel you have to support people you have fired K No no H O K K Thank you You just get that out Tonight UNCLASSIFIED B6