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...Jung, who died on Aug. 18 of heart failure in Seoul at age 85, was not the father of democracy in South Korea, but he was its consolidator. Throughout the era when South Korea was effectively ruled by the military, Kim was its most active and prominent dissident. He came within 1 million votes of upsetting then President Park Chung Hee in an election in 1971, after which Park amended the constitution and turned South Korea into a one-party police state. In 1973 government agents - with Park's assent - kidnapped and apparently planned to kill Kim. The U.S. government...
...that has claimed the lives of 35 German soldiers. At the memorial, senior Cabinet ministers went on the defensive, pledging that German soldiers would stay in Afghanistan. "We're in Afghanistan because we have to protect the security of German citizens in Germany," said Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung. But that message is hard to sell in Germany. A recent poll by the Forsa Institute found that 61% of Germans want their troops out of Afghanistan...
...Some continue to wait, while others have confronted their partners and decided to leave, even after five or six years together. In my opinion, many men continue to be commitmentphobes when it comes to having their relationship officially recognized. Instead, they say it is trendy to be unmarried. Kristen Jung, AUGSBURG, GERMANY...
Park Youn Hee, a 27-year-old in Seoul who is about to enter graduate school, remembers well the rush of hope that overcame her nine years ago during the first summit between North and South Korea. As she watched then South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korea's paramount leader Kim Jong Il shake hands in Pyongyang on television, Park believed the Cold War conflict on the Korean peninsula might finally come to an end. "We all thought that something was going to change right away," she recalls...
Lowell House: Megan K. Bartlett, Jane K. Cheng, Jung Eun Hwang, Jean A. Junior, Stella Lee, Xianlin Li, Lev Menand, Christopher R. Miller, Charles J. Redlick, Ava R. Tramer