Kim Tae-woo is a North Korea analyst with the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses here in Seoul.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Kim Tae-woo is a researcher with the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses in Seoul.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

He was convicted in 1996 of bribing former South Korean president Roh Tae-woo but pardoned a year later by then-president Kim Young-sam.

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And, in a bid to bury past traumas, Kim endorsed the pardon extended his old nemesis, former strongman Chun Doo Hwan, and ex-president Roh Tae Woo, both convicted criminals.

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