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...entered the Korea Military Academy outside Seoul. There he befriended Chun Doo Hwan, who would later become South Korea's President. The two graduated in 1955, members of the first class to complete the school's new four-year program. The friends had different temperaments. Where Chun was cold, Roh was affable. Where Chun was imposing, Roh was self-effacing...
...Still, Chun's and Roh's lives ran almost parallel. They were together at a six-month special warfare course at Fort Bragg, N.C., and both saw action in + Viet Nam as unit commanders with South Korea's Tiger Division. In December 1979, after both had become generals, Roh's infantry division came to his friend's aid when Chun overthrew South Korea's ruling clique of senior military officers and eventually took over the country...
...rose steadily under Chun. After his retirement from the military in 1981, Roh was named Minister of Political Affairs and oversaw national security and foreign relations. In 1985 he became second-in-command, after Chun, of the ruling Democratic Justice Party. By early this year, after rivals resigned from the government amid a police-brutality scandal, Roh was poised to become Chun's chosen successor...
...family man who listens to his children. Last June, when the country erupted in protest after Chun designated Roh the ruling party's presidential candidate, his 21-year-old son Jae Heon influenced his decision to propose direct presidential elections. Jae Heon is a student at Seoul National University, a hotbed of antigovernment student activism. "My son is very critical at times," Roh noted last summer. But after the candidate championed democracy, his son said for the first time, "Father, I respect you." Roh's daughter So Young, 26, is a graduate student at the University of Chicago...
...setting up the appointment and doing a few other errands for the Koreans. Philip Morris paid Deaver $250,000 to help win access to the South Korean tobacco market; company officials acknowledged they were overjoyed when Deaver obtained an hour-long meeting with South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan in Seoul and another, five-hour session with Korea's top trade official...