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...Jung, President of South Korea, was named this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, in large part because of his lifelong fight for two goals: the democratization of his country and the reunification of the Koreas...
...centuries-old ethnic strife roiling in the Balkans was being joyously transformed by the miraculous power of democracy. The gunpoint tension on the Korean peninsula was being dissipated by the democratic reformer Kim Dae Jung in the south, who last week won the Nobel Peace Prize, and his unlikely partner in the north, Kim Jong Il. And the unholy struggle in the Middle East looked, for a few moments at least, as if it was being narrowed mainly to semantic nuances about control and sovereignty over a mere 35-acre mount of land in Jerusalem...
...Hoon-Jung Kim '01 is a social studies concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays...
During last summer's Camp David peace talks, South Korean diplomats in Seoul grilled counterparts from the Middle East, calling for hourly updates, buttonholing them at embassy receptions. Why did Seoul monitor negotiations so closely? "They were afraid the talks would be successful," says a diplomat, "and KIM DAE JUNG would lose the Nobel." Many observers feel the unstated motivation driving President Kim's push for detente between the Koreas is an obsession with winning the Peace Prize, which will be announced Friday. Kim's resume has "Nobel" stamped all over it. He was jailed by military dictatorships, and assassins...
...WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REST OF US: South Korean president Kim Dae Jung has become a universal symbol of morality and peace in the excruciatingly tense exchanges between North and South Korea. If peace prevails in this troubled region, Kim Dae Jung's spectacular efforts will deserve the lion's share of the credit...