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Special Emissary. The fact that the would-be assassin was a Korean who lived in Japan further exacerbated relations between the two countries, which have been distinctly cool since the Kim Dae Jung affair last year. The Koreans have demanded not only that Japan apologize for the assassination attempt, but that Tokyo ban Chosoren, the chief anti-Park organization active in Japan. Premier Tanaka refuses to do this. He did, however, agree to send an emissary to Seoul to offer a compromise whereby anti-Park activities would be curtailed within the limits of Japanese...
South Korean-Japanese relations have been exacerbated by the stiff sentences of the two Japanese. They had already been strained as a result of the kidnaping of Kim Dae Jung, leader of South Korea's opposition party, from Tokyo last August by Park's secret police. Relations between the two countries have grown so uncertain that Japan, which provided 93% of South Korea's foreign investment last year, has hinted that its entire Korean policy is currently under review...
Park's current efforts to crack down on what is left of his political opposition center on two trials now taking place in Seoul. The first involves Kim Dae Jung, Park's rival in the 1971 presidential election. Kidnaped from a Tokyo hotel last year by South Korean security agents, Kim, who was later released, is in court to face old charges that he violated provisions of his country's election laws in the 1967 and 1971 campaigns. The trial has infuriated the Japanese-still smarting from the kidnaping-who had been promised that Kim would...
...South Korean government arrested many students last October when they protested widespread police surveillance and the government's kidnapping of the prominent opposition politician Kim Dae Jung from Japan...
...leading religious, civil and literary figures, who launched a campaign to collect 1,000,000 signatures on a petition asking for a restoration of democracy. His opponents were emboldened by the international protests touched off last fall by the flagrant kidnaping in Japan of Korean Opposition Leader Kim Dae Jung presumably by Park's secret police (TIME, Aug. 20). Finally, when the minority New Democratic Party pledged an "all-out struggle" for constitutional reform last week, Park felt that it was time...