SOUTH KOREAN STRONGMAN DIES Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan enters the Seoul Court House dressed in prison garb for his first trial on corruption charges, in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 26, 1996. Former South Korean military strongman Chun, who crushed pro-democracy demonstrations in 1980, died on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2021. He was 90. AP FILE PHOTO
SEOUL, South Korea: Former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who took power in a 1979 coup and brutally crushed pro-democracy protests before going to prison for misdeeds in office, died on Tuesday. He was 90.