Kim Outlines 4 Noble Principles Behind Kwangju Democratic Movement.

From: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) | Date: May 19, 2000 | Copyright information

President Kim Dae-jung yesterday praised Kwangju citizens for maintaining four principles _ human rights, nonviolence, mature citizenry and peaceful attitude _ during their pro-democracy struggle 20 years ago.

In a contributing article to an 240-page English book, titled ``The Kwangju Uprising: Eyewitness Press Accounts of Korea's Tiananmen,'' President Kim said human rights is a first principle of the Kwangju Democratic Movement.

``Freedom, democracy and human rights are the values. This was the banner under which Kwangju rose against armed suppression. The unarmed ...

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