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...Roh Tae Woo paused last week to talk with TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand and correspondent S. Chang. At his party's headquarters, Roh sipped ginseng tea between questions and spoke in a quiet, steady voice. Excerpts...
...future reforms. I firmly believe we will have direct presidential elections, and this announcement by Roh Tae Woo is the acceptance of an idea that people wanted for so long. It was also something that I have advocated for so long. In fact, when I met with the President on June 24, I insisted we should have a joint declaration on democracy. He did not accept my proposal, but when I left him, I had a feeling that he was already about to change his mind. According to my sources, President Chun Doo Hwan and his people were considering either...
...opposition's election prospects. I told Roh that he should be prepared to become the opposition, and he said he realized that that was a possibility when he made his proposals. In a direct presidential election, the people will show they are unwilling to accept a military man as President. People know that Roh is the successor of the military rule of Chun Doo Hwan...
After hearing the results of the caucus discussion the following day from Roh Tae Woo, who has been designated by the ruling party as its presidential candidate in next winter's national election, Chun agreed to meet with the opposition's Kim Young Sam. That in itself was a notable concession, since Chun has not only shunned Kim in the past but two months ago placed him under investigation after he had criticized Chun in a speech for making political use of the Olympics. The long record of enmity between the two men was clear from the moment Kim arrived...
...possibility would be for the government to find some way of reaching a compromise on the constitutional issue, or at least on electoral reform. Roh, who is thought to be a bit more flexible than Chun, implied such a solution when he told a group of South Korean reporters, "Our party will work out measures to cope with the present situation, respecting as much as possible public opinion and the people's aspirations as demonstrated in recent developments." An unnamed Democratic Justice Party official widely quoted in the Seoul press also seemed to indicate that Chun was backpedaling...