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Even after his escape from death, Kim was still politically active in Korea and was one of the first people arrested after Chun Doo Hwan seized power in late 1979, a move that engendered anti-American feeling among Koreans...
When hundreds of people demonstrated outside the building he was being held in. South Korean soldiers under American direction violently, restrained the crowd. This "disappointment" among the Korean people with the U.S. was only made worse when President Reagan made Chun the first state visitor after Reagan's inauguration...
However, following Chun's visit to the White House, and some say as a result of the visit. Kim's death sentence was commuted as part of a general amnesty policy for dissenters. And, in December of last year, he arrived in the United States with a passport valid only...
There are domestic political effects as well. Because Koreans view the Russian attack as an attack on Korea, they have rallied strongly to their nation and to their President Chun Do Hwam. Strong antipathies to communism have been reinforced, and the government has announced that material on the Soviet action will be added to anti-Communist instructional materials--materials intended to teach how Koreans themselves have suffered because of communism. This rallying to the nation has pushed other political domestic questions aside, to the short-term benefit of the Chun government...
...growing political problem has been the continued unpopularity of President Chun and his regime. The government is in complete control and is not challenged by any organized opposition, but its popularity is limited and its efforts to establish legitimacy have fallen short. The student demonstrations that shook the campuses last spring were the largest in three years--since Chun's takeover. Student demonstrations in South Korea are no longer the powerful force and leading indicator of public unrest they once were. Recently, however, polarization has pitted a radical minority of students against the government. But this minority has been successful...