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...nearly a week before the news was made public?and then only by Chanh's U.S. supporters, who accuse Seoul of bowing to pressure from Hanoi to seize a man they say is a prominent pro-democracy activist. Last week, some 200 Vietnamese-Americans marched on the South Korean consulate in Los Angeles to present a petition calling for Chanh's release. "He has devoted his life to promoting democracy, human rights and justice for his homeland," says Daingu Nguyen, spokesman for the recently launched website FreeChanhNguyen.com...
...Vietnam were planning more bombings to destabilize the government and that he "control[led] the codes" for the explosives. The Vietnamese government has declined to say whether it is seeking Chanh's extradition, but supporters fear that Hanoi is pushing for him to be returned for trial; a South Korean embassy official told TIME that Seoul is awaiting proof of Vietnam's accusations before it considers handing him over...
...DIED. SHIN SANG OK, 80, South Korean film director whose life story became the stuff of spy thrillers when he and his movie-star wife were kidnapped by North Korean agents in 1978; in Seoul. One of the South's most prominent directors in the 1960s and '70s?his 1958 film Jiokhwa featured the country's first on-screen kiss?Shin and wife Choi Eun Hee were abducted because North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, a movie buff, wanted to boost his country's film industry. Shin and Choi made a dozen movies at Kim's behest before staging...
...place in the Chinese imagination. To immigrants and students, it is the "Gold Mountain" - a land that, ever since the gold rush in 19th century California, has epitomized the promise of wealth, progress and modernity. The flip side is the global "bully" with which China first clashed in the Korean War, and that to many Chinese still seems intent on preventing their country from rising to its natural place among the world's great powers...
...forces in the Korean War are close to defeating North Korea when China sends troops to help its communist ally. The war ends in a stalemate...