Word: chul
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...last time he saw his kid brother, Hyung Doh, Private Lee Chul Soo was a foot soldier on home leave during the Korean War. The family took a snapshot of Lee standing proudly under a persimmon tree with his gun. But a week before the war ended, on July 27, 1953, Lee was captured and taken to North Korea, where he spent most of the next 50 years working in a coal mine. In November, Lee managed to escape from North Korea into China, and last month his younger brother flew to the city of Yanji for a reunion...
...North Korea's leaders were de rigeur reading on South Korean college campuses. Two National Intelligence chiefs and a Unification Minister have claimed in national-assembly hearings that Song went further: that he became the 23rd-ranked official in the North Korean Communist Party, under the name Kim Chul Su. Defector Hwang Jang Yop, former mentor to current North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, wrote in a 1998 book that he instructed Song in North Korea's radical juche philosophy and that Song (as Kim Chul Su) attended the funeral of former leader Kim Il Sung in 1994. South Korea...
...Song, 58, concedes that he visited North Korea 10 times for scholarly exchanges, starting in 1991 when he met Kim Il Sung. After grillings by South Korean intelligence last week, Song reportedly admitted through his lawyer that the North Koreans called him Kim Chul Su. But Song insisted that he is not the high-ranking party official who goes by the same name. Song, who says he returned to South Korea because he was homesick, spoke briefly to a gathering of friends and media on Friday, commenting cryptically: "The Song Du Yul you think you know is the real Song...
While Kim Jong Il clings to power in a nation that's increasingly isolated and impoverished, Park Jong Chul plans for the day when North Korea is no longer around. Park is a senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, a South Korean think tank devoted to bringing about the reunification of the two Koreas. In book-crammed offices on the outskirts of Seoul, 35 political scientists, economists and sociologists draft strategies by studying other cases of unification (such as Germany and Vietnam) and try to divine what shape the Koreas might take in a post...
Later in the month, CHUL voted to have all the Houses serve hot breakfasts, despite a potential increase of $13 in board fees. Fox indicated that the University would follow the committee’s recommendation and full breakfasts would be reinstated in all the Houses the following fall...