Word: chungs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ever since he rode to power in 1961 as head of a military junta, South Korea's President Park Chung Hee has done his best to disprove that adage -primarily by trying to suppress all political opposition. The press has been gagged, the National Assembly turned into a rubber-stamp parliament, and political rallies have been banned (except those approved by the government). Despite these and other unpopular measures-including the enlarging of South Korea's feared secret police, which is called the CIA - opposition persists...
...received 42 per cent of the vote in an unsuccessful race against Korean president Park Chung Hee in 1971, was offered a Harvard fellowship last summer. His matriculation was delayed when he was kidnapped to Korea last August from Japan where he was living in exile...
...about to begin, and China has reiterated its demand for U.S. troop withdrawal from the South. Seoul wanted some reassurance that Kissinger had not struck a secret deal in Peking for the reduction of American forces. What they heard was hardly reassuring. Kissinger told South Korean President Chung Hee Park that there will be no change in the U.S. military commitment until July 1974. But after that, he strongly implied, major reductions will be made, both for political and economic reasons...
There are other signs of normalcy. A few weeks ago, a team of puffing European businessmen went down 2-1 at soccer to a pickup squad from Chung Shan University, which during the Cultural Revolution was the scene of violent clashes between rival Maoist factions. Currently, one of Canton's major problems, which seems less than earth-shaking to Western visitors, is an increase in petty crime. "There are class enemies who conduct sabotage activities," says Tseng Chen-cheng, a local Communist Party vice chairman. "Some of them tell our young people: 'While you are young, you must...
After a week of intensive negotiations, South Korea dispatched Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil to Japan to bow and offer an apology for the kidnaping to Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. Under the terms of the compromise, the government of President Chung Hee Park conceded that the chief "suspect" in the kidnaping was Kim Dong Woon, the former first secretary of the Korean embassy in Tokyo and a suspected agent of South Korea's Central Intelligence Agency. South Korea, though, insisted that whatever Kim Dong Woon might have done was not in any way an official act, but entirely private...