Abstract
Chun Doo Hwan vastly enhanced Kim Dae Jung’s reputation as Korea’s bravest dissident by having him tried, convicted and sentenced to death for the Gwangju revolt. DJ was charged not only with treasonous “antistate” activities, aiding and abetting rebellion, but also with staging a campaign of heavy-handed repression.1 His trial in August and September 1980 was a show open to limited coverage by journalists for foreign news agencies on a pool basis. On the day of DJ’s indictment, August 1, 1980, 23 others, professors, pastors, politicians, writers, and student activists, all linked to DJ, were also indicted. A dozen were charged with planning the Gwangju revolt, the others with violating martial law decrees.
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© 2009 Donald Kirk
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Kirk, D. (2009). On Trial for Democracy. In: Korea Betrayed. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101845_5
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