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<text id=89TT2287>
<title>
Sep. 04, 1989: World Notes:South Korea
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 23
World Notes
SOUTH KOREA
The Charge Is Silence
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<p> Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung has spent seven of his 63
years in prison, and now the government hopes to lock him up
again. Kim and two other members of his Party for Peace and
Democracy were indicted last week for violating
national-security and currency-control laws. According to the
charges, they failed to report that one of their party
colleagues, Suh Kyung Won, visited North Korea last year in
violation of the ban on unauthorized contacts with the
Communists. Kim, twice a presidential candidate, is also
accused of failing to report that he accepted $10,000 Suh was
given in Pyongyang.
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<p> The charges are "deliberate political persecution," says
Kim. He knew nothing about the trip, he insists, until just
before Suh was arrested last June. "I have nothing to fear," he
told his supporters. But if he is convicted, Kim could spend up
to 15 years behind bars.
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