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Baker said that South Korean leader Chun Doo Hwan "is obviously very sensitive to what the United States thinks. If the United States says to the Korean people, as well as to Chun, that we do not support what he is doing, that alone could bring him down...
Baker criticized the current U.S. policy of tacit approval toward the Chun government. Should there be a popular uprising in South Korea, he warned, "all good will towards Americans, which has badly eroded since (former President) Park (Chun Hee's) death, will be gone...
...show trial was widely interpreted as an attempt by President Chun Doo Hwan, the general who emerged earlier this year as South Korea's new military strongman, to muzzle any vestiges of political opposition. The popular, soft-spoken Kim had won 46% of the vote against President Park Chung Hee in the country's 1971 presidential election. Afterward, in voluntary exile abroad, he became an active spokesman against Park's authoritarian rule. In 1973 he was kidnaped from a Tokyo hotel room by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency and dragooned back to Seoul. He remained under house...
...most vital Pacific allies. Thus Kim's foreign supporters could only hope that he might win the legal appeals open to him, first before the appellate military court and then the supreme court. Failing that, his last chance would rest on an act of clemency if Strongman Chun were to heed the court of international opinion...
...when South Korea's martial command announced that 85 colleges and universities, closed since the stormy student demonstrations of last May, were free to reopen. Another encouraging development was the appointment of Kim Kyung Won, 44, an internationally known political scientist who earned his doctorate at Harvard, as Chun's chief of staff. These moves raised hopes that Chun might be moving toward a more broadly based civilian government with greater tolerance for dissent. For the time being, though, the U.S. has to be content with a necessary ally from the same autocratic mold as President Park...