Word: seoul
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They are the last American ground forces on the Asian mainland. Manning guard posts along the Uijongbu Corridor, 14,000 G.I.s of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division stand astride the traditional invasion route from northern Korea to Seoul. For nearly 25 years, the presence of the 2nd Division along the Demilitarized Zone has been visible proof of America's commitment to defend the Seoul government against renewed aggression from the north. But the division's days in South Korea are numbered; President Carter has decided to withdraw the 2nd, along with its 17,700 support troops...
...Chung Hee was formally notified of U.S. plans for the troop withdrawal last week by Philip Habib, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, and General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During a three-hour session in the Blue House, the presidential mansion in central Seoul, Park took the news-by then hardly a surprise-calmly and thanked his visitors for all the U.S. has done for his country. He was aware, Park said, that the G.I.s could not remain in Korea forever...
...Seoul we were unable to see the great Korean poet Kim Chi Ha, now in jail serving a life sentence. We did meet the venerable Quaker Hahm Suk Hon, the "Gandhi of Korea," the only Korean who had the courage to call on us. He is now serving an 8 year jail sentence. We also met Kim Dae Jung, who received 46 per cent of the vote in 1971 when Korea last held a popular election. His first words to me were, "I am suffering from a sciatica brought on by an auto collision that I do not think...
These three men and 16 other persons were tried and sentenced to jail terms of from two to eight years for having issued a "Declaration for the Restoration of Democracy" at an ecumenical mass in Seoul's Roman Catholic Cathedral on March 1, 1976. their fellow prisoners include former President Yun Po Sun; former Foreign Minister Chyung Yil Hyung; his wife, Lee Tai Young, the first woman lawyer in South Korea; and some of the most prominent Catholic and Protestant churchmen in Korea...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, carried to Seoul in August 1974 a petition to President Park of South Korea to release South Korean political prisoners...