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TOKYO--North Korean President Kim Il Sung has died, Japan's Kyodo News Service said this morning, quoting the South Korean Defense Ministry in Seoul...
Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) also reported Kim was dead, saying he was "shot to death." It also attributed its report to the Defense Ministry in Seoul, the capital of South Korea...
...Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung won about 45% of the vote for President in 1971, and ranks as a leading contender in elections to choose a successor to President Chun Doo Hwan, whose term expires in 1988. Last week Kim offered to jettison his longtime dream of occupying Seoul's Blue House, provided that the ruling Democratic Justice Party agreed to permit the direct election of the next President. Said Kim: "If I don't stand for the presidency in 1988, the government has no excuse to oppose direct elections...
...four days last week the spacious, green campus of Konkuk University in Seoul was under siege, the scene of the worst violence between radical students and South Korean authorities in months. The clash came as roughly 2,000 students occupied five university buildings to protest the policies of President Chun Doo Hwan, who has repeatedly turned aside demands for democratic elections, and U.S. support for the Seoul government. Barricading stairwells, the protesters threatened to set themselves on fire if police moved...
...those newsworthy, yet oversimplified assessments of American Asians. Lazarus too readily accepts the fallacious idea that Asian Americans are caught between two conflicting cultures. There should be no conflict with being an American and being of Asian ancestry, for having grandparents who were born in Canton, Toyko or Seoul is just as American as having forefathers from Milan, Budapest or Edinburgh...