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Officials revealed that as a follow-up to the talks here, Reagan will send several of his top aides across Asia to report to other governments on his economic talks here. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, for instance, will fly to Seoul to see President Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea and go from there to Manila for further discussions with President Corazon Aquino...
...troupe chose April 19 for their Boston debut. The date marks the anniversary of an infamous student-led revolt in South Korea in 1960 that occasioned its modern rebirth as a "democratic" nation. The controversial significance of the event is heightened by the present situation of political instability in Seoul, where the daily-increasing volume of student agitation for constitutional reforms keeps reintroducing the spectre of recent events in the Phillipines...
...Korean counterpart, now the figures are exactly reversed. Nevertheless, many Koreans have taken heart at the sight of a right-wing dictator undone by nothing more forceful than U.S. pressure and peaceful protest. "They know the parallels with the Philippines are not there," says a Western diplomat in Seoul. "But they are taking encouragement from it anyway...
...constant threat of an attack from the North. That is by no means an idle threat. In recent months, North Korea has massed the majority of its forces just across the demilitarized zone, poised for a quick strike. It built two new airfields from which its planes can reach Seoul in just eight minutes, and bought from the Soviet Union new SCUD B surface-to-surface missiles that can hit the South Korean capital. According to Chun, his country's enemies have already begun maneuvering to sabotage two big events on Seoul's calendar: the 1986 Asian Games, beginning...
...week's end, when an explosion shattered an aviation oil storage tank at a joint U.S.-Korean air base at Osan, 37 miles south of Seoul, U.S. military authorities were not immediately able to determine what caused the blast. Fifteen people were killed, including a U.S. serviceman. Meanwhile, both Chun and his opponents pursued their campaigns while moving in opposite directions. As the demonstrators were gathering at Taegu, Chun was setting off for Europe as the first Korean leader in history to make state visits to Britain, France and West Germany. The trip will almost certainly buoy the country...