The heroine with the difficult past and enduring generous heart.

Despite its difficult past and many continuing challenges, the country is making remarkable progress.

All there is between us is a very difficult past.

A warmth of spirit and connection with the difficult past.

What better reminder of our difficult past could there be than the continued presence of this building as an active, working center?

But one former editor has now faced up to the difficult past.

Yet here the counsellor faces the problem of whether to delve into the difficult past, or to leave it alone.

Korea's democracy is stronger for beginning to deal honestly with a difficult past.

Thus it is a site of celebration as well as for remembering a difficult past.

That means overcoming a difficult past and catapulting itself into an uncertain future.