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...South Korean presidential race was not exactly a cliffhanger. Indeed, Chun Doo Hwan, 49, the military strongman, ordered construction to begin on his inaugural stand before the election was even announced. Then last week the National Conference for Unification, the rubber-stamp electoral college, convened in Seoul's Changchung arena to make it official. With only one invalid ballot marring the unanimity of 2,525 delegates, Chun was voted the country's fifth President since it gained statehood...
...obscure major general before the assassination of President Park Chung Hee last October, Chun rose to prominence and power in December. As head of the Defense Security Command, he abruptly arrested some 40 senior military officers in connection with Park's death; the round-up amounted to an effective coup. The former paratrooper quickly consolidated his power, reducing President Choi Kyu Hah to a figurehead. Choi finally stepped down on Aug. 16, and a week later General Chun duly resigned his commission, in legalistic conformity with the constitution, which bars military men from the presidency. "He was the only...
...biggest catch was Kim, who was thus eliminated from the presidential elections, which the government has pledged to hold in 1981. The field seemed clear for the military to put forward a candidate of its own, perhaps the emerging strongman, Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan. As for the millionaire culprits, the authorities were magnanimous: the nine would "resign from all public offices" -and donate their wealth to the government's public welfare fund...
...that has been in effect ever since the assassination of President Park Chung Hee last October, and against the failure of the weak government of interim President Choi Kyu Hah to produce democratic reforms. The military-backed regime-dominated by the country's emerging strongman, Lieut. General Chun Du Hwan, head of the Defense Security Command as well as acting chief of the Korean CIA-responded with a far-reaching crackdown. It closed all 212 universities, detained hundreds of student militants, and arrested leading political figures, notably Kim Dae Jung, a dissident leader and a popular native...
Ever since Chun seized power, among his goals were the execution of Kim Jae Kyu, the former intelligence chief who killed President Park, Chun's mentor, last Oct. 26; and the exclusion of Opposition Politician Kim Dae Jung from the election of a new President that was supposed to be held some time next year. Last week Chun made notable progress on both fronts. The South Korean Supreme Court rejected Kim Jae Kyu's appeal of his death sentence, and four days later he was hanged, along with four accomplices. In the meantime, martial law investigators announced that...