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...D.N.C. not aware that this sort of thing violates campaign-financing laws? The D.N.C. immediately returned Lee's $250,000 donation and admitted that its process of vetting contributions had "broken down." As for Lee, he vanished: last week his office suites in Los Angeles' Century City and Seoul were deserted...
Cold war dramas are an anachronism in most of the world today. Not so in Korea. The Seoul government quickly labeled the landing "an act of military provocation" and demanded that the North call a halt to violations of the armistice agreement that ended the war in 1953. The DMZ is the world's most heavily armed border, and probably the tensest. With North Korea mired in famine and economic stagnation, there is considerable apprehension among its neighbors that the Stalinist government in Pyongyang might seek a solution in a desperate attack on the South...
Late on Wednesday afternoon the searchers made their first contact. In a clearing atop a mountain about three miles from the stranded submarine they found the corpses of 11 North Koreans. At first officials in Seoul speculated that they had committed suicide rather than surrender: all were shot in the head. But it turned out they had also been shot in the abdomen and from behind with a rifle. Among the dead were the submarine commander, a colonel, his deputy and the navigator. South Korean officials suspect the best-trained infiltrators in the group had killed the crew in order...
...Seoul and its ally, the U.S., the sub is an intelligence prize: very little is known about the primitive North Korean subs that patrol the coast, and the Pentagon may now learn how to track their acoustic signatures. Still, South Korea is rightly protesting this raid as a violation of the armistice and the spirit of the post-cold war times. Some Koreans wonder whether President Kim Jong Il has a firm grip on things in the North or if his military might be getting out of hand. Analysts say it's more like business as usual. Pyongyang refused...
...SEOUL, South Korea: A three-judge panel sentenced former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan to death for mutiny and murder and sentenced his successor, Roh Tae-woo, to 22 1/2 years for participation in mutiny. The landmark decision puts a cap on an era of corruption and oligarchical politics that had gripped the country throughout the 1980's. The two convicted men were boyhood friends who rose through the military and as generals staged a coup in 1979, placing Chun into the presidency. Six months later, Chun ordered a brutal crackdown of pro-democracy uprisings in the Kwang...