Word: cho
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...submit such claims through the external voice of their newspaper. Harvard's ethnic organizations will not tolerate such irresponsible journalism and unthinking sensationalism. --Vivek Maru '97 Academic/Political Chair South Asian Association Susan S. Kim '96 President Korean Students Association Jean M. Ou '95 Co-President Chinese Students Association Alex Cho '96 Co-President Asian American Association Julissa Reynoso '97 President Fuerza Quisqueyana Alison Moore '97 Vice President Black Students Association Laurent Alfred '96 Political Action Chair Haitian Alliance Nisha Hitchman '97 Dax Bayard Co-Chairs Caribbean Club Pedro Orozco '96 Secretary RAZA Radi Annab '95 President Society of Arab Students
...Cho Chang Ho, 63, has been to hell and lived to tell about it. The South Korean army lieutenant was reported killed in action during the Korean War, and he had been forgotten, even by his family. But all those years Cho was alive in North Korea. Last week he finally made it home and recounted his story in a tearful hospital reunion with his sisters and brother in Seoul. He says he was captured by Chinese soldiers and forced to fight in the North Korean army. When he tried to escape, he was sentenced to 12 years...
...years ago, his children grown, Cho began studying how to escape. He befriended a Chinese smuggler and on the night of Oct. 3 stole to the banks of the Yalu River, where he met the smuggler and his well-hidden boat. A driving rain cloaked their escape from the numerous watchtowers and patrols, and in 10 silent minutes they rowed across to China. There he made his way to the port city of Dalian, where he found another Chinese smuggler, who transported him to South Korean authorities...
...Cho joined a growing number of North Koreans who have risked their lives to cross the world's last cold-war frontiers, including the dangerous strip along the country's northern border with China and Russia. But the perils of flight have begun to look less daunting as economic conditions in the North deteriorate and word spreads of a better life elsewhere. Yo Man Chul, 48, an out-of-favor police captain, slipped across the frozen Tumen River on a dark night with his wife, two sons and daughter. When he finally arrived in South Korea, he said, "I thought...
...good way to publicize issues to the whole campus," Cho adds...