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Later L.B.J. sent him to the eastern Mediterranean to head off a war between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus, then to Seoul to restrain President Park Chung Hee from retaliating against North Korea for a series of attacks against the South. In the spring of 1968, he helped keep the lid on Washington when the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. touched off racial conflict...
...Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk sounded anything but upbeat as he described the mood of "gloom" after 15 months of fruitless discussions between Pyongyang and Seoul. But at the fifth round of talks last week, Yon's spirits took a sudden upturn when his South Korean host and counterpart, Chung Won Shik, dropped an unexpected secret: removal of the last American nuclear weapon on Korean soil was complete. That announcement, long sought by Pyongyang, broke the negotiating logjam. Twenty hours later, following an all- night session, the two sides announced agreement on a nonaggression accord that in effect ended their...
...some were convinced that the adversaries in the cold war's last active confrontation might really be ready for peace. Chung Yong Suk, a professor of political science at Seoul's Dankook University, points out that the two sides for the first time used their official designations in signing the document, in effect according de facto recognition to each other. Kim Dae Jung, co- chairman of the South Korean opposition Democratic Party, called the pact a step through the "door of peace and reunification...
...president-elect Eugene H. Chung '94 offers a slightly different analysis. "I have to admit there are a lot of Asians by nature," he says. "A lot of Asians pick up string instruments...
...just look at the program and note a lot of the names are Asian," Chung says...