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Article: The strange story of South Korea's sympathy for a spy; A returned South Korean hero, now arrested, divides generations.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 25, 2003
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Byline: Robert Marquand Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA -- When Song Doo-yul returned after 37 years in Germany, it was officially treated as the homecoming of the nation's best known overseas dissenter. State media hailed him as a "fighter for democracy." A writer and theorist worshiped by the current generation of South Korean students, Mr. Song escaped South Korea's dictatorship in the 1960s, a time when many vocal intellectuals simply disappeared.
Yet in the two months since Song's return, his story has taken a weird twist. Korean intelligence has produced reams of evidence showing that the democracy activist and ...