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  • Benghazi Report: Al Qaida is Alive and Well

    12/21/2012 11:04:32 AM PST · by Kaslin · 6 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 21, 2012 | Nightwatch
    Republic of Korea: For the record. Pak Ku'n-hye (Park Geun-hye) of the New Frontier Party won South Korea's presidential election on 19 December, media reported. She is the daughter of Park Chung-hee and the first woman elected to be president of the Republic of Korea. That should confound the North! North Korea-Iran: According to a Japanese news service, an Iranian lawmaker told the service that North Korea informed Iran in October of its plan to launch a satellite. The head of an Iranian parliamentary delegation to North Korea, Hamid Reza Taraghi, revealed talks took place mid-October with the North's delegates...
  • Park Chung-hee

    09/09/2004 10:57:49 PM PDT · by Ptarmigan · 283+ views
    Latin America was not the only place in the world to have military governments where death squads reigned in to purge their nations of leftists. South Korea had its brush with the military government. This comes even before the Dirty War in Argentina and Augusto Pinochet's Chile. South Korea had freedom and democracy, which Koreans rarely had in their long history. Koreans were ruled by a monarchy, like Medieval Europe. During the Second Republic, South Korea adapted a parliamentary system, which Prime Minister Chang Myon was elected. However, it was a turbulent time and lot of political turmoil and polarization....