The Two Koreas_ A Contemporary History - Don Oberdorfer [253]
Also, New York Times correspondent Michael Gordon and managing editor Josette Shiner of The Washington Times.
IN SOUTH KOREA:
President Kim Young Sam and former presidents Choi Kyu Ha and Roh Tae Woo; Blue House national security advisers Chung Jung Uk and Ban Ki Mun; former presidential press secretaries Kim Seong Jin and Kim Sung Ik; former Blue House economic advisers Oh Won Chol, Kim Ki Whan, and Kim Jong In; former spokesman Kim Hak Joon.
Former prime ministers Lho Shin Yang, Roh Jae Bong, and Lee Hong Koo; Deputy Prime Minister Kwon O-Kie and former DPMs Choi Yong Chol and Han Wan Sang.
Former ministers of foreign affairs Choi Kwang Su, Choi Ho Joong, Lee Sang Ok, Han Sung Joo, Gong Ro Myung; Foreign Minister Yoo Chong Ha; former deputy foreign minister Park Soo Kil; former minister of home affairs Chung Ho Young; former minister of culture and information Lee Kyu Hyun; former minister of science and technology Kim Jin Hyon; former chief of protocol Lee Byung Gi.
Former ROK ambassadors to the United States Kim Kyong Won, Hyun Hong Choo, and Han Seung Soo and the current ambassador, Park Kun Woo; ROK ambassador to the United Nations (and currently foreign minister) Yoo Chong Ha; ROK ambassadors to China Roh Jae Won and Whang Byong Tae; unofficial negotiator with China Lee Soon Sok; ROK ambassador to Russia Kim Suk Kyu.
Former minister of defense Choo Yong Bok; Lieutenant General Park Young Ok, assistant minister of defense; Retired General Kim Choi Chang; Han Yong Sup of the National Defense University.
Former directors of the Agency for National Security Planning Suh Dong Kwon and Kim Deok; Deputy NSP director Rhee Byong Ho and former deputy director Sohn Jang Nae; former NSP special assistant (now National Assembly member) Lee Dong Bok; former KCIA officials Kang In Duk and Chung Hong Jin.
Former North-South negotiator Lim Dong Won; former delegate to the North-South talks Chung Hee Kyung and former NorthSouth spokesman Chung Choo Hyun; Kim Dal Sul, of the NorthSouth dialogue office; Kil Jeong Woo and Ahn Inhay of the Research Institute on National Reunification; Yu Suk Ryul and Kim Choong Nam of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security; former Vice Minister of Unification Song Yong Dae.
Chung Ju Yung, founder and honorary chairman of the Hyundai group, and Kim Woo Choong, founder and chairman of the Daewoo group.
Kim Dae Jung, opposition political leader; members of the National Assembly Chung Jey Moon, Hur Hwa Pyung, Kang Sin Ok, Kim Yoon Hwan, Lee Boo Young, Park Kye Dong, and Park Se Jik.
North Korean defectors Koh Young Hwan, Kim Hyun Hui, Kang Myung Do, and Colonel Choi Ju Hwal.
Ahn Byung Joon of Yonsei University and Rhee Sang Woo of Sogang University.
Kim Jin, reporter of .Toong-ang Ilbo, Kim Yong Sam of Monthly Chosun, and Songhee Stella Kim of Time.
I also wish to thank Russian diplomats in Seoul, Ambassador Georgi Kunaidze and Minister Georgi Toloraya; Siegfried Scheibe, former East German economic minister in the DPRK, now in the German Chamber of Commerce, Seoul; and David Steinberg, the representative in Seoul of the Asia Foundation.
IN NORTH KOREA:
I met Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kim Yong Nam; Workers Party secretary Kim Yong Sun; Vice Minister of External Economic Affairs Kim Jong U; and other officials during my January 1995 trip. I wish to acknowledge the assistance of the Institute of Disarmament and Peace, Pyongyang, which made the arrangements and was the host of this visit.
IN CHINA:
Wu Dawei, deputy director of Asian Affairs, Li Bing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and former Foreign Ministry official Li Xiang Wei.
Tao Bing Wei, a leading Chinese expert on Korea, now a senior fellow at the China Institute