ROK and Inter-Korean relations
January 2004
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Ex-MDP power broker gets 5 years for bribery
Kwon Roh-kap, a former high-level political insider indicted for taking bribes from the Hyundai Group in exchange for a promise to help the company's business projects in North Korea, was convicted yesterday and sentenced to five years in prison.
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Former president no longer a rebel
Twenty-three years after he was sentenced to death for rebellion by the military dictatorship of General Chun Doo Hwan, former President Kim Dae-jung was officially cleared of the charge yesterday.
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Inter-Korean Meeting and Contact
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Pyongyang Guarantees S. Korean Visitor's Safety
[Extraterritoriality]
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Olympic official held in embezzlement case
Following a dramatic early morning arrest yesterday of Korea's top international sports official, prosecutors detailed how Kim Un-yong, a vice president of the International Olympic Committee, used huge sums of cash he allegedly embezzled from his athletics organizations.
Mr. Kim, a former National Assemblyman who is also the chairman of both the World Taekwondo Federation and World Taekwondo Headquarters, was taken into custody and charged on numerous corruption and bribery counts. Prosecutors said Mr. Kim had been running a "general store of embezzlement."
Prosecutors also said their investigation showed that Mr. Kim sent 173 million won to North Korea, far less than the 1.3 billion won Mr. Kim said he handed to the North.
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Seminar on Inter-Korean Health to Be Held
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Pardon Sought for Former ROK Spies
By Yoon Won-sup
Uri Party lawmaker Kim Seong-ho on Wednesday sent a letter to Justice Minister Kang Kum-sil urging that a special pardon be given to a group of former secret agents who were trained to infiltrate and sabotage North Korea. They were convicted of staging violent demonstrations last year demanding the government compensate them.
Recent hit film ``Silmido?? draws attention to the issue of former spies. The film deals with a real-life incident in 1971 in which a group of armed agents escaped from an island off Inchon, where they were being secretly trained to assassinate then North Korean leader Kim Il-sung. They went to Seoul in protest of the government?s decision to cancel their project.
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Legislator: 'I bribed voters'
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Academics come to aid of colleague
The trial of Song Du-yul, a Korean-German sociologist charged with violating the nation's National Security Law, resumed yesterday with other academics defending his research and seminars as legitimate academic work, not the promotion of North Korean ideology.
[Song Du-yul] [National Security Law]
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Court delays verdict on German scholar
The last session of the trial of Song Du-yul, scheduled for today, has been postponed, the Seoul District Court announced yesterday. The court is hearing the case of the Korean-German scholar who has been indicted for violating the National Security Law by promoting North Korean interests.
[Song Du-yul] [National Security Law]
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Family rallies to side of scholar under fire
[Song Du-yul] [National Security Law]
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Brave New World
Arrival in South is Only Beginning of Journey for North Koreans .
[Refugee reception] {Andrew Carroll}
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Actress Yang Mi-kyung Will Visits NK
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Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Files Petition for Prof. Song
[Song Du-yul][Human rights] [National Security Law]
Gunter Grass, a world-famous German writer, was reported to have filed a petition Jan. 6 with a Seoul court over the trial of Korean-German professor Song Du-yul.
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Former Officials in Summit Scandal May Be Pardoned
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South, North Considering Aviation Pact
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