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...Kim Dae Jung. In my view the unhappy past should be forgotten, and the memories of it should be eradicated. When I made my proposal for democratic development, I did it in the belief that by doing so all Korean people could find harmony in these principles. I do not have any personal feeling of animosity toward Kim or anyone, and I would like to have him be part of this reconciliation...
Given the breathless turn of events, Opposition Leader Kim Young Sam was understandably ebullient last week when he talked with TIME's Hillenbrand and Chang. Excerpts...
...opposition politics. I strongly believe we will not have a split in our party as we have had in the past. In a speech yesterday, with Kim Dae Jung standing by my side, I made four promises: to avoid letting the ruling party split us, never to compete against each other for votes, to struggle not only for democratization but for a united front after that and, finally, never to repeat the folly of 1980 ((when the two Kims led opposing factions for the presidency...
...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...
Reaction to Chun's 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...