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Opposition Leaders Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam pronounced themselves unhappy with the new slate. Chun's selections, they complained, are still too attached to the Establishment to preside fairly over a referendum on direct election of the President and the subsequent national elections expected later this year. Given those feelings, it is just as well that neither of the opposition Kims is kin to Prime Minister...
...death forced a halt in negotiations over constitutional reforms, as both Kim Young Sam and Kim Dae Jung, the other primary opposition leader, observed a four-day period of mourning. But the government continued to relax its authoritarian grip on South Korean life. Chun granted formal amnesty to 2,335 South Koreans, including Kim Dae Jung, who had been banned from politics. Another group of 357 people jailed for politically related offenses was released; among them was the Rev. Moon Ik Kwan, one of the country's most prominent dissidents before he was found guilty of sedition following student protests...
...ruling-party candidate can use all the endorsements he can find. A virtual shoo-in under the old system, he will now almost certainly be challenged at the polls by Kim Young Sam. Meanwhile, Kim Dae Jung announced last week that he is reconsidering an earlier pledge not to seek the presidency in this year's election. While such an about-face runs the danger of splitting the opposition, Kim Dae Jung is no newcomer to the campaign | trail. When he ran for President in 1971 he won 46% of the vote...
...timetable for democratization. The first task is for the government to release all political prisoners and restore all political rights, including those of Kim Dae Jung. Also, the government should stop hunting down political fugitives. Then we have to sit down with the ruling party and work out the constitutional change. The constitution has to be finished some time in September, with the presidential election law and the National Assembly election law finished in early October. The presidential election should take place in late October or early November, before the weather gets too cold...
...about-face ranged from unreserved jubilance to dark skepticism. "This is the year of the political miracle," said Kim Young Sam, leader of the Reunification Democratic Party, the principal opposition group. "I think he has given us all that we wanted." The other major opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung, was more reserved. Having spent most of the past seven years in prison, under house arrest or in exile, Kim would go no further than to declare that "people's power has brought this about." Park Chan Jong, chairman of the main opposition party's policy committee, was more dubious still...