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After the President’s Sons Were Imprisoned Individuals make up history, while history governs individuals’ actions and thoug

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问题                      After the President’s Sons Were Imprisoned
    Individuals make up history, while history governs individuals’ actions and thoughts.
    This simple observation may be the biggest consolation to President Kim Dae-jung, who is distressed by the imprisonment of two of his three sons and the political challenges he nowadays seems to face at every turn on the final span of his presidency.
    Kim is forced to perform two conflicting roles. On the one hand, he is a concerned father seeing his second son, and the youngest, jailed on influence-peddling charges.
    The 77-year-old president recently gave an emotional account of his inner feelings, saying that never in his life has he felt as distressed as now. He told a group of reporters that he didn’t feel this low even at the height of his struggle against dictatorships.
    The second role he is playing is that of responsible leader.
    The winner of the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to inter-Korean detente, Kim is resisting all calls to step back from the frontline of politics.
    He has vowed to do his duty as the top manager of state affairs until the last day of his mandate in February next year.
    On the other band. with the presidential election due in December. Lee Hoi-chang, the standard bearer of the Grand National Party, is attacking Kim for his low standard of morality, citing his sons’ graft charges, while Rob Moo-hyun, the presidential candidate, of the Millennium Democratic Party, which Kim founded but severed ties with, is trying to dissociate himself from Kim’s legacy.
    Therefore Kim’s public approval rating has suffered. His "Sunshine Policy" is in danger of sliding into oblivion. It is not hard to imagine what Kim is mentally going through. Perhaps. he may be regretting having entered politics or be worrying about how history will see him, when he is not around.
    Right now, his reputation is so tarnished that he is probably tempted to believe that history will judge him more fairly in 10 or 20 years than his contemporaries.
    In a sense, however, he may as well have more audacity to demand that his contemporaries give a fairer judgment of his presidency.
    For instance, the mass media has lamented the unhappy repetition of history in connection with the imprisonment of Kim’s two sons. Kim Young-sam, his predecessor, also saw his favorite son. Hyun-chol, jailed.
    A closer look at the charges facing Hong-up and Hong-gui and those that led Hyun-chol behind bars will tell the difference.
    Investigations have so far failed to show that the two brothers meddled in state affairs, while Hyun-chol was often called "the second man" in charge behind his father.
    It could, in a sense, be not the repetition of history but an improvement, if the cases are used to forewarn the offspring of presidents-to-be of the consequences they will face for their misbehavior.
    The two Kims differ in their behavior after their beloved sons were thrown into jail. President Kim is determined to stay in control, while Kim Young-sam lost his will to govern, sending the country adrift into a financial crisis, according to his former aides.
    While some people say, in defense of Kim Young-sam, it is fair to acknowledge his right to assert what good he did as the first civilian president after three heads of state who were army generals.
    This comparison between the two Kims would lose its validity, if President Kim used it in his defense. The public wouldn’t tolerate it.
    In truth, it would be put to best use if President Kim hides it in a deep comer of his heart and takes more sincere and feasible measures to push this nation forward. It’s what really counts.
Kim is resisting alt calls to step hack from ______.
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答案the frontline of politics
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