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...were willing to express comparable confidence about the country's political future. The question of succession was still unanswered. Acting President Choi Kyu Hah, 60, plunged into interminable rounds of talks with military leaders and key ministers, reportedly in search of a succession formula. The two main contenders for the presidency, former Premiers Kim Jong Pil, 53, and Chung II Kwon, 61, were believed to be trying to drum up support, but thus far strictly behind the scenes...
...government's numerous and conflicting stories about the assassination resembled a political drama concocted by the author of Rashomon. Last week martial law investigators issued what they called their "final" report. It concluded that Korean Central Intelligence Agency Director Kim Jae Kyu had killed Park because Kim had wild fantasies that he himself should be President. The report exonerated the military of any involvement in Kim's coup attempt; it also credited the martial law commander, Army Chief of Staff General Chung Seung Hwa, 53, with foiling the plot by arresting Kim and the other murderers. The investigation...
...most intense speculation focused on the unanswered questions about the assassination itself, now commonly known as the Friday Night Massacre. Nobody disputed the bare facts of the case: Park, along with his chief security officer, Cha Chi Chul, and four bodyguards had been killed by KCIA Director Kim Jae Kyu and five of his men during dinner in a private room of a KCIA building. The alleged assassin and the dinner's sole survivor, Park's presidential chief of staff, Kim Kae Won, were both under arrest, and 30 to 50 KCIA officers had also been taken...
First, the government had claimed that Park had been killed "accidentally" when Kim Jae Kyu fired several shots at Cha in a fit of anger. Two days later, the government tacitly admitted the absurdity of that version by providing a second "official" account of the killing. According to this story, Kim and several of his KCIA agents had conspired to kill both Cha and the President because Kim had fallen out of favor with Park and feared that he was going to lose his job. That account seemed more plausible, as far as it went...
...defense ministry, while Chief of Staff Kim Kae Won rushed Park to a nearby hospital. When the alleged assassin and the general arrived at Chung's office shortly after 8 p.m., Defense Minister Ro Jae Hyun was waiting there. Ro called in Premier Choi Kyu Hah, who reacted with unexpected forcefulness. He insisted that the nation should be informed immediately of Park's death and that he should carry out his constitutional duty "no matter what, even at the cost of my own life and the lives of my family." Ro and Chung sided with the Premier...