> #Carter’s envoy in South Korea, #WilliamGleysteen, had given advance approval to his plans to use military force against the students and workers swarming the streets in the spring of 1980..#ThePentagon and the #StateDepartment were well aware that #KoreanSpecialForces, trained to fight behind the lines in #NorthKorea, were being deployed to #Gwangju and other cities as planning for the #May18 coup proceeded.. a betrayal of the Korean people..a decision to support the military security forces.