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Chun apparently chose to act in April at least in part because the opposition was in disarray. Unwilling to compromise on the issue of direct presidential elections, Kim Young Sam and his primary opposition partner, Kim Dae Jung, broke with the New Korea Democratic Party and formed a new group, the Reunification Democratic Party. Most antigovernment legislators decided to follow suit, quickly making the R.D.P. the primary opposition party, with 67 seats in the 276-member National Assembly. But the regrouping nonetheless served to splinter Chun's critics further...
After Chun's announcement, the opposition called for a renewed dialogue with the government and warned of political troubles to come. The President, however, has expressed no desire to talk with either of the Kims. In fact, the police have tightened security around Kim Dae Jung, who has been under house arrest for the past two weeks. Unless Chun reopens talks, said Kim Young Sam, "resistance and uprisings" would be unavoidable. Others made similar predictions. Said Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou Hwan of Seoul, whose influence goes far beyond the country's 2 million Roman Catholics: "The people's dream...
...nearly a year the government and the opposition have been arguing the pros and cons of constitutional reform. Two weeks ago the opposition's two major leaders, Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam, pulled out of the New Korea Democratic Party, the largest antigovernment group in parliament, because they felt the N.K.D.P. president was about to agree to a compromise supported by Chun. Citing the "mess in the opposition," Chun last week said he could not deal with a party unable to "resolve its own internal problems through dialogue." Critics charge that the president encouraged the divisions, negotiated only...
...Korean students fill a political void that does not exist in some other East Asian countries. Japan, for example, permits dissent and has a vocal opposition that includes the Communist Party, which holds 27 seats in the national parliament, or Diet. But Koreans have no such democratic outlets. Kim Dae Jung, the country's most famous dissident, is barred from all political activity, and has been under frequent house arrest since returning from U.S. exile in 1985. Even left-wing books and pamphlets are officially forbidden...
South Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung won about 45% of the vote for President in 1971, and ranks as a leading contender in elections to choose a successor to President Chun Doo Hwan, whose term expires in 1988. Last week Kim offered to jettison his longtime dream of occupying Seoul's Blue House, provided that the ruling Democratic Justice Party agreed to permit the direct election of the next President. Said Kim: "If I don't stand for the presidency in 1988, the government has no excuse to oppose direct elections...