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...healthy majority-151 seats -in the country's 276-member National Assembly. After formally taking office last August, the tough former general first tightened, then abolished martial law, launched an anticorruption campaign, and promulgated a new constitution. He spared the life of Dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung, an act that contributed to the success of Chun's February call on President Reagan. Chun has also shrewdly challenged Dictator Kim II Sung to attend a precedent-setting Korean unification summit. Last week, in an interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Anatole Grunwald, Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold...
That Chun, who seized power in a coup last year, was Reagan's first ruling foreign visitor was no accident. The President wanted to show that violations of human rights, such as Chun's imprisonment of his former political rival, Kim Dae Jung, will no longer have a decisive impact on relations between the U.S. and an ally that stands as a bulwark against Communist expansion. Explained a senior State Department official: "It is not the purpose of this Administration to look into the internal affairs of Korea...
...single hour last week, South Korea's political situation took a dramatic and hopeful step forward. To hardly anyone's surprise, the country's 15-man Supreme Court had upheld a verdict rendered four months ago by a military court that sentenced Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung, 55, to death by hanging for sedition and attempting to overthrow the government. But 60 minutes later, to some surprise and considerable relief, the South Korean Cabinet, at the direction of President Chun Doo Hwan, 50, commuted Kim's sentence to life imprisonment in the interest of "national reconciliation...
Three Harvard professors have joined an international group of scholars and politicians in an appeal to the South Korean government for the release of Kim Dae Jung, a prominent dissident facing execution...
Kaufmann deals out persuasive arguments, though one suspects volume three, which will cope with Freud, Adler and Jung, is to be the grand synthesis of Kaufmann's philosophy for a new age. (He never says that's what he is about, perhaps for fear of shocking those of us who still cling to such dishonored idols as Hume, Bentham, Locke and Mill, howling about desecrations by infidels from 19th Century Germany...