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Talks between Reagan and South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan were so harmonious that White House aides called them uneventful. Chun told Reagan that he agreed with "every sentence, every word, every phrase" of his National Assembly speech. Reagan's visit to the demilitarized zone took him closer than any U.S. President to the North Korean lines. He helicoptered to the Liberty Bell camp, where U.N. forces guarding the historic truce village of Panmunjom are based. At a forward observation post, he had a binocular view of North Korean military positions. Returning to Washington Sunday, Reagan could reflect...
South Korea. Political flux seems to have become the norm in South Korea. Last year President Chun Doo Hwan ousted half of his 22-member Cabinet after a scandal arose involving illegal loans and fraud by moneylenders with connections to his government. On a visit to Burma last month, 14 leading South Korean officials, including four Cabinet ministers, were killed in a terrorist bombing...
...stimulus was so successful that President Chun has decided to cool the economy to prevent inflation, now coasting at an annual rate of 2.3%, from speeding up. The government will hold 1984 spending to 1983 levels. Board Member Suh Sang Mok, a senior researcher at the Korea Development Institute, predicted that, even with the new austerity program, his country would have 8% growth in 1984. He was optimistic about the government's ability to recover from the Burma bombing. "The policymakers who replaced the old Cabinet share the same philosophy," he said, "so our present economic directions will...
...bomb ripped through the Martyr's Mausoleum in the Burmese capital, Rangoon. The South Korean delegation had gathered at the site for a wreath-laying ceremony at the beginning of what was to have been an 18-day tour of South Asian and Pacific countries. South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, 52, the apparent target of the attack, had not yet arrived at the ceremony and escaped unharmed...
Upon his return to Seoul, President Chun described the bombing as a "tenacious provocation by the band of Communists in North Korea." A possible motive: North Korean frustration over South Korea's increasingly active diplomacy toward nations that, like Burma, maintain ties with North Korea. The government of North Korea called the accusation "preposterous and ridiculous." Police in Rangoon arrested two Koreans last week, though there was no confirmation that they were from the North. The Burmese reported that another Korean was killed when he tried to escape arrest...