"American Friends of Vietnam" and Present Korean Lobby in the United States

Reading the part in which Frederik Logevail describes the South Vietnamese lobby organization, called the “American Friends of Vietnam“ in his book, “Embers of War,“ makes me think about what the Korean lobby may be doing now in the United States on the issue of comfort women. The AFV boasted the members like Senators John F. Kennedy, Mike Mansfield and Hubert Humphrey, Karl Mundy and William Knowland, academics such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Wesley Fishel and Samuel Eliot Morison. Also, it had members from the US media like Henry Luce of Time Inc., Whitelaw Reid (New York Herald Tribune), Walter Annenberg (Philadelphia Inquirer), Malcolm Muir (Newsweek) and William Randolph Hearst Jr. (New York Journal-American). This reminds me of the attitude in the US toward Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines.

And the stories told by Thomas A. Dooley can be understood as a precursor of what Seiji Yoshida would do many years later, though the big difference is that Dooley talked about a foreign country and Yoshida smeared the reputation of his own country.