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...RELEASED. KIM HONG GUL, 40, Korean President Kim Dae Jung's youngest son, after serving less than six months of a two-year jail term on charges of bribery and tax evasion; in Seoul. Hong Gul was instead fined $167,000. In freeing him, the court said it took into account Hong Gul's "passive" involvement and this month's conviction of his older brother Kim Hong Up on similar charges...
...RESIGNED. SOUTH KOREAN JUSTICE MINISTER KIM JUNG KIL, 65, and prosecutor-General Lee Myung Jae, 59, taking responsibility for the death of a murder suspect who was fatally beaten while in police custody; in Seoul...
Katarina Runesson has spent half of her undergraduate career thousands of miles away from her college at the University of Eähjö in Sweden. The globe-trotting political science student has studied in Seoul, South Korea; Managua, Nicaragua; and, most recently, Hamburg, Germany. This fall, she’s capping off her world tour here in Cambridge as part of Harvard’s little-known Visiting Undergraduate Student (VUS) program...
...higher. War with North Korea, Bush told his aides, was out of the question. He could not let Kim alter the fragile balance of power on the Korean peninsula, where 37,000 U.S. troops stand across the DMZ from a million-man army close enough to destroy Seoul, South Korea's capital, in a blitzkreig. By Bush's own doctrine of pre-emption, the U.S. should strike against any state with weapons of mass destruction and an irresponsible dictator. But the consequences of attacking Pyongyang are unacceptable. What Bush apparently never anticipated was a brazen admission that the evidence...
...barbed-wire gates, economically and diplomatically. He edged in the direction of primitive market reforms and announced a grandiose scheme for a private-enterprise zone along the border with China. Just as intriguing was the sudden burst of sunshine from Pyongyang diplomats as they clamored to hold talks with Seoul, Tokyo and even Washington. Soon after a shoot-out with Seoul's patrol boats that left five dead, the North scheduled its first tete-a-tete with the South in nine months...