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...formally arrest Kim, who has 17 1/2 years remaining on a 20-year prison sentence for sedition. The pledge was aimed at the U.S., which had been so concerned about Kim's safe return that it briefly delayed the announcement of a White House meeting between South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan and President Reagan, scheduled for April. When Kim was escorted to his Seoul home, he found it surrounded by guards. His activities, the government announced, will be limited to "fulfilling his daily necessities...
...Americans who were mistreated at the airport were outraged. Derian called on Reagan to cancel the Chun visit. The State Department promptly lodged a protest with Seoul, but indicated that the Reagan-Chun meeting would go ahead "as scheduled...
...Young Sam. Both Kims and twelve other opposition figures are forbidden to vote or run for office. To what degree Kim's presence might influence voters remains unclear. Most are too young to remember his nearly successful 1971 bid for the presidency; moreover, the electoral rules favor President Chun's Democratic Justice Party...
More worrisome for Chun is Kim's potential role as a focus for dissent. Only a few days before his arrival, an estimated 50,000 people attended a political rally in downtown Seoul. Afterward, 1,000 protesters marched through the streets chanting, "Down with the dictatorship...
According to Webber, Chun's government has already forbidden press coverage of Kim's arrival at the airport. The only documentation of the event will be by those reporters who travel with Kim to South Korea. Webber suggested that the Aquino incident was made possible by the absence of press coverage...