Word: doo
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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...
...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...
...Hours later the plane disappeared over the Andaman Sea, shortly before a scheduled stopover in Thailand. Officials in Seoul openly speculated that the Boeing 707, carrying 95 passengers and a crew of 20, might have been destroyed by a bomb planted by North Korean agents. South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan said the North was intensifying "provocative moves to obstruct the upcoming < presidential election and the Olympics...
June 1985. Philip Morris wants to break into the closed South Korean cigarette market. Its competitor, R.J. Reynolds, has already hired Reagan's former National Security Adviser Richard Allen to press its case. Deaver tells Philip Morris that he has a close relationship with South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, whose 1981 state visit to Washington he arranged. Deaver goes on to describe how he and Chun embraced in the Oval Office. His fee: $150,000. Deaver goes to Seoul, is treated like a dignitary, meets the President and other top leaders, and links the cigarette issue to pending trade...
After President Chun Doo Hwan bowed to protesters in June and agreed to hold direct presidential elections, the two Kims promised to settle on a single candidate. But neither would yield to the other. Kim Young Sam entered the race last month. Last week was Kim Dae Jung's turn. Acknowledging that his candidacy "might unintentionally benefit antidemocratic forces," the elder Kim nonetheless declared that he will seek the post "to fulfill my responsibility to history...