Roh Tae-woo, who served as South Korean president from 1988 to 1993, has died of natural causes at age 88. Although he was the country's first popularly elected head of state, his career ended in ignominy.
Chun Doo-hwan called a democracy activist a "liar" and "Satan" in his memoir. The former dictator was previously sentenced to death, but almost immediately pardoned, after Seoul's military government fell.
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