The Truth Stands Naked: The 30-Year Course of the Democratization Movement in Korea

In this volume, Kim Jeong-nam, a noteworthy leader of pro-democracy struggle in Korea, recounts the 30-year course of the movement. Included here are hitherto unknown stories involving the poet Kim Ji-ha’s statement of conscience and the government’s “explanation” of Park Jong-cheol’s death by torture. Based on his wealth of important materials and first-hand experience, the author recreates the dramatic development of the democratization movement and the people’s resistance against military dictatorship in Korea over 30 years from the Free Press Movement and the YH Incident to the Busan-Masan Struggle, Sabuk Miners’ Labor Struggle, Gwangju Democratization Movement, arson of the American Center in Busan, deaths of Park Jong-cheol and Lee Han-yeol, and the June Struggle of 1987.