Channing Liem; Former South Korean Ambassador to U.N.

Channing Liem, 86, former South Korean ambassador to the United Nations. Born in North Korea, Liem studied at Soong Sil College in Pyongyang, and Lafayette College and the New York City Biblical Seminary in the United States. He also earned a doctorate at Princeton University, where he helped form the Educational Foundation for Korean Students. He served as U.N. ambassador in the early 1960s during the government of Chang Myon. Liem spent much of his career teaching political science and international relations in the United States, including Chatham College in Pittsburgh and State University of New York at New Paltz. In his later years, Liem worked extensively for the reunification of North and South Korea. In December, he was elected chairman of the overseas headquarters of the Pan-Korean Alliance for Reunification. On Jan. 24 in Berkeley of a stroke.