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Changes in North Korea and Inter-KoreanRelations--by Dae-Sook Suh, professor ofpolitical science and director, Center for KoreanStudies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu. 2Divinity Ave., Common Room...
...active confrontation might really be ready for peace. Chung Yong Suk, a professor of political science at Seoul's Dankook University, points out that the two sides for the first time used their official designations in signing the document, in effect according de facto recognition to each other. Kim Dae Jung, co- chairman of the South Korean opposition Democratic Party, called the pact a step through the "door of peace and reunification...
Korean residents can apply for Japanese citizenship but often do not, charging that the subtle prejudices against them do not disappear. "Every day I face invisible barriers," says Hong Dae Pyo, a language-school director who contends that he was fired from a salesman's position when his employer discovered he was Korean. "If Japan accepted me as Hong Dae Pyo, I would naturalize tomorrow...
...team, tentatively called the Democratic Liberal Party, embraces his own Democratic Justice Party, Kim Young Sam's Reunification Democratic Party and Kim Jong Pil's National Democratic Republican Party. This leaves Kim Dae Jung, head of the Party for Peace and Democracy, out in the cold with a mere 71 seats in the 299-seat legislature...
...Dae Jung denounced Roh's gambit as a "political coup d'etat" and demanded a general election, but most South Koreans were not so disgruntled. The country's fractious four-party system is unwieldy and inefficient, and besides, the opposition parties themselves are largely one-man shows. If nothing else, the realignment will reduce South Korea's confusing roster of same-sounding political parties, and perhaps with it, put an end to internecine bickering in the legislature...