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...RESIGNED. SOUTH KOREAN JUSTICE MINISTER KIM JUNG KIL, 65, and prosecutor-General Lee Myung Jae, 59, taking responsibility for the death of a murder suspect who was fatally beaten while in police custody; in Seoul...
...Jung Il is still fully in control of the country, analysts say. There are periodic reports of small signs of dissent - anti-government leaflets and graffiti, for example. Some defectors say family members will complain among themselves and possibly with friends. But North Korean defectors say that everyone is aware that anybody caught protesting publicly will be sent to a harsh prison camp, where they will be joined by members of their family. Lee, the young woman who fled last month, says she saw an old lady standing in line waiting for rations in August who suddenly said...
...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...
...Released in the UK and throughout Asia this summer, The Good Women of China has been likened in early reviews to Jung Chang's 1991 bestseller Wild Swans. But while Chang's engaging book?covering how three generations of women in her family were affected by China's changing political climate?held a crisp, clear vision, Xue's far broader approach works against it. There's no denying The Good Women of China is an important book, or even that it is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th century Chinese society. At the same time, due to a disjointed...
...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...