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# Korean Rightist Denounces 'Corrupt' American Regime Seoul, Korea, May 6 (U.P.)—Kimm Kiusic, Korean elder statesman, today denounced the "corrupt" American administration here and said he opposed the United Nations-sponsored elections scheduled for next Monday in South Korea. Kimm, a moderate rightist considered to be Korea's most influential politician, praised the work of Soviet occupation forces in North Korea while comparing the Americans to the "dishonest Japanese" who ruled the island for 40 years. Kimm's statement was especially embarrassing to U. S. occupation authorities, who hand-picked him to be president of South Korea's interim legislature. He resigned that post to attend a Russian-sponsored Korean unity conference in North Korea. Kimm returned to Seoul yesterday. He said he opposed Monday's elections because "they will tend to perpetuate partition." If they are held, he predicted, Korea eventually would become a Soviet federation. Kimm said Korean factories in the north are in "much fuller production" than in the American zone. He hailed the Russians for "making themselves inconspicuous." In south Korea, he said, the Americans "meddle too much." "Much corruption exists in the present (United States) military government," Kimm charged. "Koreans, in 40 years of Japanese occupation, learned to work with dishonest Japanese. Now these Koreans are using their experience to use Americans to help work their corruption. "Several Americans have gone home rich." The north Korean conference voted unanimously to demand that both Soviet and United States forces withdraw from Korea immediately. A fire which destroyed an empty Army barracks last night in the Seventh Division compound "possibly was started deliberately," Capt. Fred Openshaw, reported. He said the barracks "seemed to go up all at once." none was reported injured. If proved to be arson, it would be the most flagrant sabotage yet of American property in Korea. Earlier today, Maj. Gen. William F. Dean reported after a tour of Cheju Island, 50 miles south of Korea, that agents of the north Korean Communist army have landed there to direct guerillas in a terrorism campaign against the elections. Sixty persons have been killed in bloody rioting on Cheju, in the United States zone, since April 3.