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...Korea, the U.S. views that countryas a key Pacific ally and a bulwark against the Soviet-backed North Korean government. Washington was thus taken aback last year, when North Korean slogans began creeping into South Korean protests and student rhetoric turned sharply anti-American. The U.S. has since urged Chun to help defuse the situation by compromising with the opposition on a formula for the transition to democracy. Secretary of State George Shultz, who visited Seoul last week during a ten-day Far East swing, reportedly received assurances that Chun would seek such a compromise. Said a senior U.S. diplomat...
...students and Chun today seem to be on a collision course. The protesters are clear about what they want. "Most Koreans, whether students or not, favor a return to civilian government," says a former council president at Seoul National University who was jailed for 1 1/2 years for organizing a reading circle. "We want to see a change in the constitution and direct election of a President. This is the most important thing to end the crisis in the country...
...election issue is a bitter one in a nation that has not had a democratic change of power since its founding in 1948, and hopes to show the world a peaceful face when it is host to the 1988 Summer Olympics. Chun, who would be the first South Korean leader to leave office voluntarily, wants to convert the presidential system into a parliamentary one that would choose his successor. That move would allow the party that controls the National . Assembly to name a Prime Minister. But opponents argue that under South Korea's complex method of apportioning seats, such...
...youths are more open in their attacks on the U.S. They blame Americans for the Allied division of the Korean peninsula after World War II. Their chief complaint, though, is that Washington supports the dictatorial Chun government. "Without getting rid of the foreign influence of the Americans," one protest leader says, "we cannot restore democracy to Korea." A computer- science major at Seoul National University puts it simply, "We think of America as the most moral government in the world, and yet it backs this immoral Chun government. Why doesn't America support democracy here...
...have received a higher education. They are often attracted by the latest intellectual fashion or the best conspiracy plot. One theory now making the rounds is that the small CIA team that supposedly engineered the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines has arrived in Seoul to topple Chun...