The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate of this year

1971, April
Won 46 percent of the electoral vote (5.4 million votes) in the Seventh Presidential election, despite massive election fraud

1972, October
President Park Chung Hee suspended the Constitution a second time and declared the Yushin System
Went into first foreign exile and organized anti-dictatorship movements in Japan and the USA

1973, August
Abducted from a Tokyo hotel by agents of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency; survived two assassination attempts during the abduction and was forcibly returned to Seoul and placed under house arrest

1976, March
Arrested on charges of violating Emergency Decree No. 9, forbidding all criticism of the Yushin Constitution, in the case of the "March First Declaration for Democratization."
Supreme Court subsequently upheld sentence of five years in jail and suspension of civil rights for five years

1978, December
Prison sentence suspended; released from jail and placed immediately under house arrest

1998, February 25
Presidential inauguration

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2000, June
First Summit meeting held between Two Koreas