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3 lawmakers face ouster for election crimes

Three lawmakers are at risk of losing their seats in the National Assembly for violations of election law committed in the April 2000 general election. The Seoul High Court on Tuesday imposed fines on them in excess of the 1 million won ($790) threshold. At the hearing on appeals filed by nine lawmakers, Jung In-bong, of the opposition Grand National Party, was fined 3 million won. You Sung-keun, of the same party, was fined 2.5 million won,…

Dec 11,2001
4 in ruling party vying to take group's reins

Noh Mu-hyun, senior adviser to the ruling Millennium Democratic Party, officially announced Monday that he is running for the party's nomination as its presidential candidate. The ruling party has four candidates as of Monday － Kim Joong-kwon, Hahn Hwa-kap, Yoo Jong-kun and Mr. Noh － competing for the nomination. At an event celebrating Mr. Noh's recent publication of a book at the Seoul Hilton Hotel, he said he would run as a candidate repres…

Dec 11,2001
Troubled at home, Kim finds a place he can smile － Oslo

As President Kim Dae-jung, the 2000 Nobel Peace laureate, shook hands with Joseph Rotblat, who won the prize in 1995, at the Nobel Peace Prize centennial symposium in Oslo, Norway, last week, he did something rarely witnessed in Korea lately: He smiled broadly. The camaraderie among the laureates and the international recognition Mr. Kim receives as a democracy activist-turned president-turned Nobel laureate may well have cheered him. At h…

Dec 11,2001
Cries of 'Lies!' Flying

The two opposition political parties exchanged vitriolic accusations Monday over the failure of the impeachment motion against Prosecutor General Shin Seung-nam. The main opposition leader, Lee Hoi-chang of the Grand National Party, accused the United Liberal Democrats of reneging on a promise to cooperate with the GNP on the impeachment motion. In response, 14 party officeholders of the United Liberal Democrats visited the Grand National P…

Dec 10,2001
3-step nuclear inspections

The International Atomic Energy Agency notified North Korea in May of its plan to inspect the country's nuclear facilities in three stages, a South Korean government official said Sunday. This is the first detailed inspection plan devised since North Korea and the United States agreed in Geneva in 1994 that the North would freeze its nuclear facilities. According to the South Korean official, the Vienna-based United Nations agency has divi…

Dec 09,2001
Impeachment bid fails; maneuvers thwart vote count

Harsh words between the ruling and opposition parties continued after an impeachment motion against Prosecutor General Shin Seung-nam was neither adopted nor defeated Saturday. It died because of procedural slight of hand. "The vote took place legally but the Millennium Democrats refused to send observers to tally the vote," said Representative Lee Jae-oh, floor leader of the main opposition Grand National Party. "Blocking the tallying of vot…

Dec 09,2001
GNP scrambling for votes

Just a day before the National Assembly votes on an impeachment motion against Prosecutor General Shin Seung-nam, the burden of the vote and its implications fell mostly on the main opposition Friday. The Grand National Party, which proposed the motion, was visibly worried as the likelihood that the motion would pass began to dwindle. The United Liberal Democrats, who hold 15 seats in the legislature, said they would vote against the motion…

Dec 08,2001
Hungary seconds Kim's sunshine

BUDAPEST － President Kim Dae-jung met with President Ferenc Madl of Hungary on Friday after his three-day visit to Norway. Mr. Madl reportedly offered his support for Mr. Kim's "sunshine" policy of engaging North Korea and said that he would assist in inter-Korean reconciliation efforts. The post of president is mostly ceremonial in Hungary. Mr. Kim will meet with Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday to discuss cooperative trade relatio…

Dec 08,2001
Party faction split, but for how long?

The Donggyo-dong faction, loyalist followers of President Kim Dae-jung accused of exerting heavy-handed control over the affairs of the ruling Millennium Democratic Party, is reconciling. Implications of the gathering of the ruling party's largest faction is obscure at the moment, and the faction members themselves are saying that it is their custom to get together at the end of the year. But Kim Ok-doo, the party's former secretary-gener…

Dec 08,2001
Real election sweepstakes?

The ruling Millennium Democratic Party said Thursday it will invite citizens selected by lottery to help choose its presidential candidate. The selection of presidential candidates in South Korean political parties has been mired for years in rumors of bribery, cronyism and other unfair dealings; about 10,000 delegates now pick party candidates. The MDP's special reform committee, which made the decision to implement the new system, said it wa…

Dec 07,2001

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