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...estimated that South Korea has more than 200 political prisoners, including the dissident poet Kim Chi Ha, whose life sentence for some critical writings was recently commuted to 20 years. In 1973 South Korean agents abducted former Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung from a Tokyo hotel and brought him back to Seoul, an operation that seriously strained South Korea's relations with Japan. Late last year the government released Kim from jail, but it still places him under house arrest occasionally...
...East Asian Legal Studies Program has previously invited South Korean political prisoner Kim Dae Jung and supporters of the Philippine and South Korean governments to speak at Harvard...
...South Korea. Repressive presidential decrees prescribe prison terms for dissent. Eighteen well-known political, intellectual and church leaders, including former Presidential Contender Kim Dae Jung, have been jailed for dissent. "We say we're there to protect democracy," scoffs a U.S. official. "Is there any left...
...Korean poet Kim Chi Ha, now in jail serving a life sentence. We did meet the venerable Quaker Hahm Suk Hon, the "Gandhi of Korea," the only Korean who had the courage to call on us. He is now serving an 8 year jail sentence. We also met Kim Dae Jung, who received 46 per cent of the vote in 1971 when Korea last held a popular election. His first words to me were, "I am suffering from a sciatica brought on by an auto collision that I do not think was accidental, and from an anxiety neurosis." I said...
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...