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...before the unsuccessful Diplomatic Club meeting, a third Kim had launched his campaign against Roh. To a poster-waving crowd of 3,000 supporters at a hotel in downtown Seoul, former Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, 61, indicated that he too would seek the presidency, as the nominee of a party he would form later this month. A chief architect of the 1961 coup that brought Park Chung Hee to power, Kim Jong Pil is generally credited with forging economic policies that helped make Park's 18-year regime the crucible of a remarkable burst of development. The ex-Prime...
Because big house parties tend to draw peoplecampuswide, "I don't see the point in [thecouncil's] throwing a party," said Pieter M. Pil'88. The council should stick to events out of thehouse committees' purview, such as sponsoring theupcoming Elvis Costello concert, Pil added...
...unpopular side of Chun's populism has been his unflinching use of repressive measures against opponents. Kim Dae Jung, 54, the vocal opposition leader, is currently being tried for sedition, a charge that the U.S. State Department calls farfetched. Another former rival, Kim Jong Pil, 54, onetime Prime Minister and head of the ruling Democratic Republican Party, is recuperating from 46 days of detention and grilling by the military. Still under house arrest is Kim Young Sam, 52, leader of the opposition New Democratic Party, who has renounced politics altogether. Chun has also imposed rigid military censorship...
...chief offender, according to the announcement: Kim Jong Pil, 54, head of the ruling Democratic Republican Party. Kim had amassed $36 million in "unmoral gams" during his years in power, it was claimed, by conniving to acquire some 5,300 acres of government land on which he eventually established lucrative tangerine groves and dairy farms. Runner-up in the corruption sweepstakes was Lee Hu Rak, once head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and Park's chief of staff. Lee, said his accusers, squeezed $4.6 million out of South Korean business firms, then used the capital to build...
...down with a series of iron-fisted edicts and actions: a ban against all political activity, the closing of all university campuses and, finally, the summary arrest of hundreds of prominent politicians, busi nessmen and student leaders. Indeed, even the head of the governing Democratic Republican Party, Kim Jong Pil, was detained. The arrest that proved to be a decisive provocation, however, was that of the government's leading critic, Kim Dae Jung. To justify their actions, the authorities charged that he had connived to foment the recent unrest and to overturn the government...