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Only four days after the melee at Seoul's Kimpo International Airport that attended the return from exile of Opposition Politician Kim Dae Jung, 60, South Korea's voters went to the polls last week to elect a new National Assembly. As expected, the ruling Democratic Justice Party (D.J.P.) of President Chun Doo Hwan came out on top, with 35% of the popular vote. But the most remarkable result was the impressive showing of the New Korea Democratic Party (N.K.D.P.), with which Kim is associated. Founded less than a month before the elections, it captured 29% of the vote...
...addition to Kim Dae Jung, the new party's backers include Kim Young Sam, 57, who spent the election campaign under house arrest, and Party President Lee Min Woo, 70, a stem-winding orator who used the rarely spoken words dokcheja (dictator) and kunsa dokje (military dictatorship) in campaign speeches. Most of the N.K.D.P.'s new strength at the polls was drawn not from the ruling party but from another opposition group, the Democratic Korea Party, which gained 81 seats in the 1981 elections but only 35 this time. N.K.D.P. support was particularly strong in Seoul (pop. 9 million...
Both Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam were overjoyed at the results. The former declared, "The people's aspirations for freedom and democracy have done it all," and called for unification of the opposition parties. Said Kim Young Sam, who was released from house arrest on Wednesday: "The people are sick and tired of it all. South Korea today has too many causes for despair to be mentally and economically at ease." He also paid special tribute to the "student power" that had helped the N.K.D.P. to its solid showing. A day later, he was again restricted...
After more than two years of exile in the U.S., Kim Dae Jung, 60, South Korea's best-known dissident, finally flew home to Seoul last week. Unlike Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino, the Philippine opposition leader who was assassinated at Manila airport in 1983 as he returned from exile, Kim survived the homecoming. But his arrival was anything but routine. In a rough-and- tumble airport scene, he and a number of prominent U.S. supporters were jostled, pushed and generally man-handled by South Korean security guards...
...Jung, the self-exiled South Korean opposition leader, called for democracy in his home country yesterday at a Faculty Club luncheon. "With democracy, South Korea will become another West Germany," he proclaimed in front of faculty, friends and members of the press...