Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STUDENT HUNGER STRIKES, class boycotts, and violent demonstrations where 38 were wounded followed the March resignation of KOREA UNIVERSITY President Kim Jun-yop, which student and faculty leaders claim was forced by the South Korean government. Thousands of students attended demonstrations at the university's Seoul campus, while 12 student government leaders staged three-to- five-day hunger strikes and up to 25 percent of the student body boycotted military training classes for nine days last month. Student leaders said the government ousted Kim because he attempted to keep the university free from government pressure and because Kim was overly...
...sanguine about prevailing over the Vietnamese invaders who control his country. Says he: "The Vietnamese will never withdraw. In one or two generations, my people and their children will not know what they are." The prince resides in mansions maintained for him by friendly governments in China, North Korea and Thailand, and often visits Cambodian refugee communities in France and the U.S. He plays his part energetically, but sees himself as a 20th century King Lear, shuttling helplessly between his households. Says he: "If Shakespeare were alive, he would be interested in my destiny...
...together an explanation for the unusual incursion into their waters of a Chinese ship of corpses. The torpedo boat, together with 15 other vessels, had been taking part in a routine Chinese naval exercise when two crew members seized control. Apparently, they intended to take the ship to South Korea, and from there they hoped to defect to Taiwan. Their plan, however, had gone awry as the mutiny turned into a gunfight in which the six crew members were killed and both mutineers were wounded...
Peking reacted to South Korea's harboring of the stricken vessel by putting its forces on alert; Seoul quickly did the same. Three Chinese warships, sent to retrieve the fugitive boat, entered South Korean waters, and the Koreans sent ships and jet fighters to intercept the interlopers. But the tense situation was quickly defused by U.S. diplomacy late on Friday. "We were asked to convey messages between the Chinese and the Koreans," commented a Washington official. Though China and South Korea do not maintain diplomatic relations, they have been edging toward a rapprochement. Neither side, it seems, wanted to allow...
Three times in the past 30 months, Chinese defectors have successfully used South Korea as a way station for political asylum in Taiwan. With that in mind, Peking requested last Saturday that the Koreans return the ship and its entire crew. Seoul seemed certain to comply. The mutinous duo, however, are receiving medical treatment in a South Korean hospital. Once they are fit again, they will probably be allowed to go to Taiwan...