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...serious crisis in seven years, the week produced no lack of movement. For the first time in his presidency, Chun met face to face with Kim Young Sam, one of the country's two principal opposition leaders. At Kim's urging, the President then freed the other leader, Kim Dae Jung, from eleven weeks of house arrest. The stopover by Sigur, who is Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, was prompted by growing alarm in Washington at the nightly clashes between demonstrators and riot police in the cities of a major ally. Sigur urged Chun...
While agreeing to end the house arrest of Kim Dae Jung, Chun refused to restore his political rights, which were stripped after Kim was convicted by a military court of sedition in 1980. The President said his decision was influenced by the "attitude of the person concerned." Translation: Kim, who once ran for President and won 46% of the vote, is still too large a threat to the ruling party to risk restoring him to full political activity. Finally, Chun promised to order the release of nearly all the 300 demonstrators arrested during the current round of protests but indicated...
While unrest was sweeping South Korea last week, Kim Dae Jung, the country's most famous opposition politician, stayed home. He had no choice: for the past ten weeks Kim has been under house arrest, his modest two-story residence in a Seoul suburb surrounded by 500 to 600 police. He and the eight aides confined with him can use the telephone and receive domestic newspapers, but no visitors are allowed inside. That isolation is an apt emblem of the country's weak and divided political opposition. A foe of virtually every regime since the South Korean republic was founded...
South Koreans have had decades to size up the two principal opposition leaders. Kim Dae Jung, 63, and Kim Young Sam, 59, who are neither related nor particularly close friends, have been active in antigovernment party circles since the 1950s. The older Kim, a stubborn politician and charismatic speaker, won 45% of the vote in the 1971 presidential election. In 1980 he was tried by a military court and sentenced to death for inciting students to rise against the government. After the sentence was first commuted to life in prison and then reduced to 20 years, Kim was permitted...
...With Kim Dae Jung under house arrest, Kim Young Sam has assumed a larger role in opposition affairs. A small, lively man who jogs for 45 minutes each morning and serves as a Presbyterian elder, the younger Kim has become highly visible around Seoul. He scuffled briefly with security forces last week when he theatrically sought access to Kim Dae Jung's house. The encounter won him some publicity and a bruised leg, which he proudly displayed to journalists...