Word: dae
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were charged with violating Emergency Decree No. 9, a measure that the Confucian Park promulgated last year, forbidding criticism of his government or even of the emergency measure. Among the accused, along with Quaker Hahm: former President Yun Po Sun, 79, who held office from 1960 to 1961; Kim Dae Jung, 50, an opposition leader who lost by a narrow margin to Park in the 1971 presidential election; former Foreign Minister Chyung Yil Hyung, 72, and his lawyer wife, Lee Tai Young...
Still, the defendants managed to turn the courtroom into a forum for their cause. In one full day of testimony, Kim Dae Jung, who has likened Park to an "Asiatic Hitler," charged that the regime's repressive policies were playing into the hands of Communist North Korea. Said he: "Where there is no freedom to defend, how is it possible to fight Communism...
Within the past two weeks, the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA) has arrested more than 30 of the country's leading dissidents. The most prominent prisoner is Kim Dae Jung, 50, the opposition leader who won 45% of the vote in the presidential elections of 1971 and has since been subject to almost continual government harassment-including a kidnaping in broad daylight from a Tokyo hotel by KCIA agents in 1973. Along with Kim, some 15 Christian clergymen were brought in to KCIA headquarters for interrogation, including Kim Kwan Suk, 57, the secretary general of the National Council...
...electoral college whom he favored. An extraordinary 91% of South Koreans voted in favor of the new amendment, a suspiciously high majority in view of the fact that nearly half of the electorate had voted against Park in 1971. "What else could they have done?" fumes Kim Dae Jung. "Park had guns on them all at the time...
Tokyo Kidnapping. Park used his enhanced powers to crack down even harder on his political opposition. Kim Dae Jung, who continued hyperbolically to brand Park an "Asiatic edition of Hitler," was abducted in broad daylight by the K.C.I.A. from a hotel room in Tokyo and spirited back to Seoul. Kim's kidnaping infuriated the Japanese, whose sovereignty had been crassly violated...