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...RELEASED. KIM HONG GUL, 40, Korean President Kim Dae Jung's youngest son, after serving less than six months of a two-year jail term on charges of bribery and tax evasion; in Seoul. Hong Gul was instead fined $167,000. In freeing him, the court said it took into account Hong Gul's "passive" involvement and this month's conviction of his older brother Kim Hong Up on similar charges...
...then heard from privates at the base that his son might have been killed by fellow soldiers at a drunken party. Further inquiries ran into a wall of silence?which 16 years later, the still grieving father hoped would finally crumble when President Kim Dae Jung set up a presidential commission to investigate suspicious deaths under Korea's authoritarian regimes. Like similar panels set up in post-apartheid South Africa and post-junta Argentina, the commission was supposed to set the record straight and heal the wounds of the past. From Park Chung Hee's coup in 1961 until...
...NOMINATED. KIM SUK SOO, 69, former South Korean Supreme Court judge, to be the country's Prime Minister; in Seoul. His bid needs the approval of the opposition-controlled parliament, which recently rejected President Kim Dae Jung's first two nominees to the largely ceremonial post...
...elections, confirming speculation that has gathered force since Korea's remarkable World Cup run. Chung, also an independent legislator in the National Assembly, has deep wells of World Cup popularity to draw from; current polls already give him a 10% lead over opposition candidate Lee Hoi-chang. President Kim Dae-jung's ruling Millennium Democratic Party has made overtures to Chung, but the football chief says he will form an independent party shortly after he officially declares his candidacy. In running for the presidency, Chung is fulfilling the dreams of his late father Chung Ju-yung, the founder...
...talk to Seoul, Tokyo and Washington all at once. Senior North Korean government officials are scheduled to travel to Seoul this week for ministerial-level talks, the first such tete-a-tete in nine months. Says Yim Sung Joon, a senior advisor to South Korea's President Kim Dae Jung: "This is a very important moment for the two Koreas...