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...series of "confessions," which the defendants repudiated, testifying that they had been extracted by torture. Thus when the four generals of the military tribunal in Seoul pronounced their verdict last week at the end of the month-long trial, it was a grim, foregone conclusion: South Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung, 54, was found guilty of conspiring to overthrow the government and sentenced to death by hanging. His 23 codefendants, a group of Christian ministers, university professors and students, were given prison terms ranging from two to 20 years...
...eerily empty quality, immaculately clean with none of the characteristic academic bric-a-brac littering his desk. His one luxury in the spartan setting is a little tea kettle. He eagerly keeps track of world events, and asks most of his visitors if they think prominent South Korean dissident Kim Dae-Jung "will swing"--a euphemism which even seeps into his speech when he refers to himself. He takes phone calls with an effusive charm and unusual passion. "That was another one of my friends--calling from San Francisco. Everyone I know who can afford it is fleeing the country...
PRESIDENT CARTER would have us believe his foreign policy is at least partly predicated on support of human rights. But American reaction to the sentencing to death of prominent dissident Kim Dae Jung--who nearly became head of state in the last democratic elections held in South Korea--indicates that those who believe in realpolitik are prevailing at the expense of those who feel there can be at least a semblance of morality in U.S. foreign policy...
That it requires a "celebrity" dissident like Kim to bring South Korea's atrocities to our attention is sad enough in itself. The problem does not begin with Kim, nor will it end unless the U.S. decides to get on the side of democratic change in South Korea, by publicizing dissidents' claims and working through international channels to boost progressive elements...
Until now, the pattern has proved sadly familiar: muted threats unsupported by effective action. Accordingly, Carter should no longer allow convenience to dictate his responses. He should pressure the regime to commute Kim's and others' sentences, free the universities, and encourage the people to decide for themselves the form of government they want--at the threat, serious and not conjectural, of withdrawal of military and economic...