Title: "Korean Urges Interning Of All Japanese," Seattle Times, 2/19/1942, (ddr-densho-56-635)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-635

Korean Urges Interning Of All Japanese

With the warning that two-thirds of the Japanese-Americans are dual citizens, many of whom are Japanese agents, Kilsoo K. Haan, head of a large volunteer Korean espionage organization, declared yesterday that all Japanese, American born or otherwise, should be interned for the duration of the war.

Haan, representative of the Sino-Korean People's League, which has an espionage organization of 1,500 members, said that unless this is done the Pacific Coast cannot be protected properly against a vast Japanese espionage system which has been organized to cooperate with military forces in the conquest of the United States.

April Attack Expected

The Japanese, he said, have published confidential military books on the plan, which calls for conquest of the Hawaiian Islands in April, scheduled to be completed in one week, and followed simultaneously by attacks on Alaska, the Pacific Coast and the Panama Canal.

Haan said he stole two of these books, one in Portland, Or., in 1940 from a secret meeting of Japanese officers, and another in a Los Angeles hotel. So far, he said, the Japanese have followed precisely the plans outlined in the books he stole.

Dual Citizenship Charged

Haan said that approximately 40,000 of 96,000 American-born Japanese on the Pacific Coast are dual citizens and that at least 15,000 of these have been sent by their parents to Japan for education, and then returned here.

These, he said, are "doubtful American citizens." He declared all Japanese, therefore, should be taken into protective custody for the duration of the war.