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...South Korean Dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung, it was an all too familiar story. Last week, the day before the New Korea Democratic Party, the government's main opposition, was to open a two-day convention, a Seoul police official arrived at Kim's house and told him to "stay at home." "This is totally illegal," protested Kim, who received a 20-year suspended sentence for a 1980 sedition conviction. Last February, in just the same fashion, Kim was put under house arrest for four weeks after his return from more than two years of self-imposed exile...
...accuse the government of not doing enough. Refugees complain they are rarely welcomed into a South Korean society that views them as unskilled communist rubes. If their integration is viewed as a dress rehearsal for the eventual reunification of the two Koreas, it isn't going well. Says Lee Jung Hoon, an expert on North Korea at Yonsei University in Seoul: "South Korea just isn't ready...
...deal firmly with the North, possibly through tougher sanctions. Until then, though, Bush needs to appear open to negotiation so that allies and domestic voters alike will not carp that war is his primary tool of foreign policy. "It seems both sides don't want to compromise," says Lee Jung Hoon, a political scientist at Yonsei University in Seoul. "But neither wants to be seen as the culprit for the lack of progress...
...When a rich brother goes to visit a poorer brother, the rich brother should not go empty-handed. We wanted to provide $100 million of support. But there was no legal way to do it." Kim Dae Jung, former South Korean President, in an interview with the Financial Times, in his most candid remarks to date concerning the secret payments to North Korea made while he was in office...
...together in nearly 60 years. And to the surprise of foreign observers, new topics are appearing in North Korean fiction: poverty, starvation, even the hint that not all officials are paragons of virtue. In 2002, state presses released Hwang Jin Yi, a ribald historical novel by Hong Seok Jung, which will be published in South Korea in September. The heroine is a courtesan who encounters starving masses, corrupt officials, and a governor "completely immersed in booze and women." The story is set in the 16th century, and there is no reason to suspect that the author is anything...