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...supporters squeezed into the tiny gymnasium. Perhaps 50,000 others gathered outside in the streets. Some sat on curbsides, some mounted rooftops, some climbed onto telephone booths or trees to hear the call for nonviolent resistance. "Let them back us, imprison us or put us under house arrest," declared Kim Young Sam. "This is the way Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. won victory." Throughout the four-hour rally, thousands of policemen looked on, unarmed and uninterfering...
...presidency six years ago. Just one week earlier, a similar protest had been held in the city of Pusan. And last weekend the opposition mounted yet another rally in the central city of Taegu. Though police took no action against the orderly crowd of 10,000 people who heard Kim Young Sam speak, they fired tear gas and waded into 2,000 youths who threatened to storm the city hall after the main group had dispersed...
Antigovernment protests in an authoritarian country are rare, and those in South Korea are still distinctly circumscribed. The state-controlled national television channel devoted one sentence to the Easter demonstration; newspapers all but ignored it. On his way to Kwangju, the country's leading oppositionist, Kim Dae Jung, was stopped by more than 200 policemen and forced to return home. He was also told by police that he would not be allowed to travel to Taegu...
...time of Park's death, the most prominent opposition candidate for President was Kim Dae Jung, the eloquent veteran politician who had first joined the National Assembly in 1960. The military, however, suddenly aired Kim's associations with a Communist-leaning party roughly 35 years earlier and sentenced him to death on grounds of sedition. The sentence was ultimately commuted to 20 years' imprisonment--thanks, it seems, to U.S. lobbying. Further pressure from Washington freed Kim to come to the U.S. for medical treatment. Ever since his return last year, Kim, now 62, has been banned from politics and kept...
During his confinement, Kim's message was taken up by Kim Young Sam, 58, a former presidential rival. Though a polished and personable campaigner, the younger Kim seems less charismatic and shrewd than Kim Dae Jung and, having % suffered less at the hands of the government, does not command such public sympathy. As a protest against his colleague's political banning, he too refused for a long time to join the N.K.D.P. With both Kims working behind the scenes, the party fell into the less commanding hands...