Kwangju
Americannoun
noun
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Following the 1980 Kwangju uprising, as defense commander he helped preside over eight months of martial law.
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On his way to Kwangju, the country's leading oppositionist, Kim Dae Jung, was stopped by more than 200 policemen and forced to return home.
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In less than two hours the soldiers had secured Kwangju.
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Following the recapture of Kwangju, government leaders called for national unity and "a healing of the tragic scars."
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The reconnaissance flyover was the first signal that South Korea's military was preparing to break the rebel seizure of Kwangju.
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