Word: dae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dae Jung ran strongly, but narrowly lost the last presidential election in 1971. He spent much of the following 16 years in prison, under house arrest or in exile, and was even threatened with execution in 1980. The charismatic firebrand boldly asserted at his rally last week, "I, Kim Dae Jung, have already won the election." But it was the more moderate Kim Young Sam who last month scored the campaign's biggest coup. While declaring that "the call of history is to put a final end to military government," he won the support of several past military leaders, including...
...Korea's military-backed government, last week was both the best and the worst of times. On the one hand, an overwhelming 93% of voters approved a new constitution that calls for direct elections and guarantees human rights. On the other hand, a formal split between Leading Dissidents Kim Dae Jung, 63, and Kim Young Sam, 59, dimmed prospects for an opposition victory next month, when South Korea holds its first democratic presidential election in 16 years. The rupture increased chances that Roh Tae Woo, the ruling party's candidate, would emerge the winner...
After President Chun Doo Hwan bowed to protesters in June and agreed to hold direct presidential elections, the two Kims promised to settle on a single candidate. But neither would yield to the other. Kim Young Sam entered the race last month. Last week was Kim Dae Jung's turn. Acknowledging that his candidacy "might unintentionally benefit antidemocratic forces," the elder Kim nonetheless declared that he will seek the post "to fulfill my responsibility to history...
...stage for his candidacy, Kim Dae Jung bolted from the Reunification Democratic Party that he forged in April with Kim Young Sam. The final split came after Kim Dae Jung rejected the younger Kim's proposal to have the Reunification Democrats pick a single candidate. In an eleventh-hour appeal, Kim Young Sam then sent an aide to urge the more volatile Kim Dae Jung to remain inside the party. When that plea also failed, Kim Young Sam declared that he viewed the elder Kim's defection with "extreme regret." Taking 27 of the party's 70 National Assembly members...
Worries about the military played a major part in last week's aborted negotiations between Kim Young Sam and Kim Dae Jung. Kim Young Sam, who shares the centrist policies of his rival, hinted that elements of the army were wary of the charismatic Kim Dae Jung. Kim Young Sam argued that he was the opposition's best bet to avoid friction with the military and therefore preserve democracy. But Kim Dae Jung spun that argument around. "On a couple of occasions," he said, "Mr. Kim Young Sam said that he would like to give up his candidacy in favor...