Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Making morality in foreign affairs a major issue, Carter charges that it is wrong for the U.S. to be the world's leading arms salesman. He finds it "repugnant" that Washington backs authoritarian regimes like South Korea and has suggested that either Seoul start reforming or the U.S. should consider a cutback in aid or in U.S. security forces there. Carter also feels that the U.S. has a moral obligation to do significantly more than it has to help underdeveloped countries and to participate in what could be very costly international commodity agreements to bolster the economies of such...
...venerable leader of South Korea's Quakers and an advocate of nonviolence, had been imprisoned by the Japanese, the Russians and then by the authoritarian Syngman Rhee regime. Now he knew he faced imprisonment again. And so, each day during his trial, he came to the Seoul courtroom dressed in beige funeral robes to symbolize the death of his freedom-and of Korean democracy. When the four-month trial finally ended, he and 17 distinguished co-defendants were sentenced to terms ranging from two to eight years each. Said Hahm: "These were the best of our people. They have...
...matter of conscience occurred last March 1 at an ecumenical Mass in Seoul's Roman Catholic Myongdong Cathedral, marking the 57th anniversary of a Korean uprising against Japanese colonial rule. A group of political and religious opposition leaders decided to use the occasion to issue a "Declaration for the Restoration of Democracy," protesting the iron rule of Park Chung Hee and calling on him to step down...
Bitter Rhetoric. In both Washington and Seoul, officials said they were mystified over the reasons for the North Korean attack. It is conceivable that it was simply a local controversy: the hostility along the DMZ is strong enough for the pruning of a tree to become a casus belli (see box). Beyond that, the Korean Communists have been unusually bitter lately in their rhetorical condemnations of the U.S. presence in South Korea. Last week, for example, the North Korean embassy in Peking twice issued warnings that "a critical situation" was developing in Korea and that war could break...
Still, despite combat-ready armies poised on both sides of the DMZ, it seemed unlikely that a larger conflagration would result from last week's incident. In Seoul, reported TIME'S Tokyo Bureau Chief William Stewart, "there was little evidence of tension. The streets are clogged with traffic jams, the restaurants are full and on the sidewalks the crowds savor a late August breeze. The latest incident is shrugged off as worrisome but manageable." And in the DMZ last weekend, the North Koreans offered no resistance when American soldiers went out and chopped down that poplar tree near...