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...legal reforms include restoration of the writ of habeas corpus. Unfortunately, that comes too late to help Chun's political enemies, like Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung, who is now appealing a death sentence on sedition charges...
...East Asian Legal Studies at the Law School who has been involved in South Korean politics, said the U.S. could have made a difference in both the military backlash which followed last spring's student uprisings at Kwangehu and the arrest and sentencing of opposition leader Kim Dae Jung...
...confessions," which the defendants repudiated, testifying that they had been extracted by torture. Thus when the four generals of the military tribunal in Seoul pronounced their verdict last week at the end of the month-long trial, it was a grim, foregone conclusion: South Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung, 54, was found guilty of conspiring to overthrow the government and sentenced to death by hanging. His 23 codefendants, a group of Christian ministers, university professors and students, were given prison terms ranging from two to 20 years...
...quality, immaculately clean with none of the characteristic academic bric-a-brac littering his desk. His one luxury in the spartan setting is a little tea kettle. He eagerly keeps track of world events, and asks most of his visitors if they think prominent South Korean dissident Kim Dae-Jung "will swing"--a euphemism which even seeps into his speech when he refers to himself. He takes phone calls with an effusive charm and unusual passion. "That was another one of my friends--calling from San Francisco. Everyone I know who can afford it is fleeing the country. I hear...
PRESIDENT CARTER would have us believe his foreign policy is at least partly predicated on support of human rights. But American reaction to the sentencing to death of prominent dissident Kim Dae Jung--who nearly became head of state in the last democratic elections held in South Korea--indicates that those who believe in realpolitik are prevailing at the expense of those who feel there can be at least a semblance of morality in U.S. foreign policy...