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...also engaged in acrimonious and counterproductive sniping matches with politicians and the press. When opposition lawmaker Kim Moon Su first accused Roh of hiding his land holdings?Roh denies any wrongdoing?the President filed a $2.5 million libel suit against Kim and four newspapers that published stories on the allegations. Last month Roh asked the courts to suspend the lawsuits until the end of his term, after an avalanche of bad press. But the damage has already been done. Making it personal doesn't look very presidential, says Choi Yang Soo, a communications scholar at Yonsei University in Seoul...
...North Korea's leaders were de rigeur reading on South Korean college campuses. Two National Intelligence chiefs and a Unification Minister have claimed in national-assembly hearings that Song went further: that he became the 23rd-ranked official in the North Korean Communist Party, under the name Kim Chul Su. Defector Hwang Jang Yop, former mentor to current North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, wrote in a 1998 book that he instructed Song in North Korea's radical juche philosophy and that Song (as Kim Chul Su) attended the funeral of former leader Kim Il Sung in 1994. South Korea...
...Song, 58, concedes that he visited North Korea 10 times for scholarly exchanges, starting in 1991 when he met Kim Il Sung. After grillings by South Korean intelligence last week, Song reportedly admitted through his lawyer that the North Koreans called him Kim Chul Su. But Song insisted that he is not the high-ranking party official who goes by the same name. Song, who says he returned to South Korea because he was homesick, spoke briefly to a gathering of friends and media on Friday, commenting cryptically: "The Song Du Yul you think you know is the real Song...
Su’s family is asking that, in lieu of flowers, donations be sent in her name to the Anna Su Memorial Fund, c/o Irene Su, 106 Ava Court, Plymouth Meeting...
...just want[ed] to live her life in such a way that [she could] die any day and be satisfied,” Jean Su recalled...