Word: kim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
About 70 war correspondents, out of perhaps 400 who covered the Korean War, have turned up at the Marriott for a two-day reunion. Come June 25 it will be 30 years since the forces of North Korea's Kim II Sung rolled south over the 38th parallel and started the first hot war of the cold war period. Everybody present (wives excepted) is over 50. Most are over 60 and several over 70; most celebrated among them, Novelist James Michener...
...country's emerging strongman, Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan, head of the Defense Security Command as well as acting chief of the Korean CIA-responded with a far-reaching crackdown. It closed all 212 universities, detained hundreds of student militants, and arrested leading political figures, notably Kim Dae Jung, a dissident leader and a popular native son of Kwangju's province. At that, the city rose up in revolt, and angry demonstrations took place in more than a dozen neighboring towns...
...happens, Kim Dae Jung is a native of South Cholla province, of which Kwangju (pop. 800,000) is the capital. Cholla is the poorest region of the country, and was consistently neglected by President Park during his 18 years in power. The people of Cholla have long complained of unfair treatment by the central government. Most of all, they resent the fact that their area has been deprived of the industrialization that has benefited the rest of the country. When they learned last week that the government in Seoul had arrested Kim Dae Jung, they rose up in protest...
Ever since Chun seized power, among his goals were the execution of Kim Jae Kyu, the former intelligence chief who killed President Park, Chun's mentor, last Oct. 26; and the exclusion of Opposition Politician Kim Dae Jung from the election of a new President that was supposed to be held some time next year. Last week Chun made notable progress on both fronts. The South Korean Supreme Court rejected Kim Jae Kyu's appeal of his death sentence, and four days later he was hanged, along with four accomplices. In the meantime, martial law investigators announced that...
...well-off, Cambridge University was an oasis in the wasteland of prewar Europe. Yet, for a few, the green fields were mined with sexual intrigue and high treason. For Cambridge was also a school for scandal. The most notorious Soviet spies were recruited there: Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and, it turned out late last year, Sir Anthony Blunt, now deknighted and deposed as art adviser to the Queen. How, from this world of privilege, philosophy and vintage port, could the Soviets have enlisted such consummate traitors...