Word: korean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fearful about the future." Deeply troubled by the prospect of further arms agreements with the Soviets, he is still trying to bury the INF treaty by tacking killer amendments onto it, as he proved last week. His distrust of the Soviets is boundless and personal. He still suspects that Korean Airlines Flight 007 was shot down in 1983 in part because the Soviets had learned that he was scheduled to be aboard. "Trust them?" he asks. "No way, Jose...
...Korean peninsula, Moscow remains the Communist North's principal supplier of military aid, including modern MiG-23 warplanes, but the Soviets want to cultivate trade and other ties with South Korea. That is largely why Soviet Olympians will be going for the gold in Seoul this summer rather than staying home. As a result, the U.S.S.R. has an incentive to use its leverage to prevent an attempt by the North to disrupt the Games...
...political shilly-shallying were an Olympic sport, the South Korean electorate would enter this year's Summer Games in Seoul not only with the home-field advantage but with a good shot at the gold medal. Just eleven months ago, widespread protests forced the Democratic Justice Party to accede to election reforms that put its continuation in power at risk. In December, with opposition forces deeply divided, voters kept the incumbent party in office after all, electing Roh Tae Woo, 55, to a five-year term as South Korea's President. Last week the same voters, in a somewhat different...
...thus became the first South Korean chief executive to lose majority control over the National Assembly since the country became a republic four decades ago. The Democratic Justice Party won only 125 of the legislature's 299 seats, leaving it 25 votes short of a majority. Clearly shaken by his party's poor showing, Roh declared that he "humbly" accepted the defeat, and tried to find a bright side to it. Said he: "The parliamentary elections, in a sense, will offer an opportunity to advance political maturity in our country." But he acknowledged that "numerous difficulties are expected...
Political analysts chalked up the poor showing of Roh's party to overconfidence and its habit of fielding candidates on the basis of party standing rather than electability. The cloud of uncertainty produced by the election caused panic on the South Korean stock market, which plunged nearly 26 points, to 618.73, its largest one-day drop ever. But many South Koreans seemed pleased at the prospect of at last having a counterbalance to one-party rule. Said Han Sung Joo, a political science professor at Seoul's Korea University: "The government will just have to make the necessary concessions...