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MEMBERS WHO HAD BEEN PLACED UNDER HOUSE ARREST, INCLUDING KIM Dae Jung, South Korea's most prominent dissident. At the luncheon meeting, Chun even acknowledged the "excessive measures" of the police...
SOUTH KOREA LUNCH AT THE BLUE HOUSE Chun ends a crackdown and talks reform with his opponents TWO WEEKS AGO, SOUTH KOREA'S PRESIDENT CHUN DOO HWAN DID SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY LAST WEEK: HE INVITED TOP OPPOSITION LEADERS TO JOIN HIM FOR LUNCH AT THE BLUE HOUSE, THE PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE IN SEOUL, IN AN EFFORT TO "SHIFT FROM CONFRONTATION TO DIALOGUE." AS A SIGN OF GOOD FAITH, THE EX-GENERAL RELEASED THE 270 OPPOSITION...
President Chun Doo Hwan seems to have lost patience with the growing clamor for democratic reform. Among the first to feel his wrath: Kim Dae Jung, 61, the country's leading dissident, who was placed under house arrest for the ninth time since he returned to Seoul from exile in the U.S. a year ago. Last week government...
...crackdown was sparked by a petition drive mounted by opposition leaders. Its aim: revision of the 1980 South Korean constitution to allow direct election of the President, instead of the current electoral-college system, which allegedly favors Chun's ruling party. Chun, for his part, wants a moratorium on political reform until after the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Scoffs Kim Young Sam: "To say that the nation should absorb all the government madness until 1988 is to say that Korea could go to pieces after the Olympics...
Student criticism of Chun, increasingly vocal in recent months, was brought to a head by the fifth anniversary of the 1980 uprising at Kwangju, 200 miles south of Seoul, in which thousands of students took over the provincial capital to protest the declaration of martial law. After South Korean troops moved in to put down the Kwangju uprising, 191 people were killed, according to the official count. Other estimates put the toll as high as 1,000. The U.S., say Washington officials, approved the sending of only one of the divisions that brutally recaptured the city. Nonetheless, some critics...