S. Korea to try leading dissident
NZPA-Reuter Seoul South Korea’s leading dissident, a former presidential candidate, Kim Dae Jung, and 23 other people will appear before a military court' - martial today on charges of 'conspiring to overthrow' the Government the ’ martial-law . command has announced.
The ,54-year-old veteran politician and the other defendants could face the death penalty if they are found guilty. "T.i Kim was detained on May< 17 when martial law was! A
declared after' widespread student demonstrations. The martial-law command has said that Mr Kim was the instigator of an uprising last May in the city of Kwangju in which 189 people died. Kim was. kidnapped by South, Korean agents from a Tokyo "hotel in 1973 while in self-exile in Japan and was brought back to South Korea. Two years before, he had won. 45 per cent of the vote in the last direct presii dential election against the late President Park Chung iHee,
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