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Behind the Wheel : Has Roh's journey from the barricades to the Blue House prepared him to lead South Korea?(Roh Moo Hyun )
The Daewoo sedan skirted police patrols in the dead of night. At the wheel, human-rights lawyer Roh Moo Hyun navigated past various protest sites scattered across Pusan, South Korea's main port city. It was 1987. Roh's passenger, a former client and student activist named Lee Ho Chul, had already been jailed--and tortured--for antigovernment activities. Hidden in the Daewoo's trunk: thousands of contraband leaflets demanding that strongman Chun Doo Hwan, a hard-line general who seized power in 1980, step down and permit democratic elections. Their nerves were stretched taut. "If caught, we would have been arrested," says Lee.
Like many in his generation, Roh is a ...
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