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After more than two years of exile in the U.S., Kim Dae Jung, 60, South Korea's best-known dissident, finally flew home to Seoul last week. Unlike Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino, the Philippine opposition leader who was assassinated at Manila airport in 1983 as he returned from exile, Kim survived the homecoming. But his arrival was anything but routine. In a rough-and- tumble airport scene, he and a number of prominent U.S. supporters were jostled, pushed and generally man-handled by South Korean security guards...
...sedition. The pledge was aimed at the U.S., which had been so concerned about Kim's safe return that it briefly delayed the announcement of a White House meeting between South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan and President Reagan, scheduled for April. When Kim was escorted to his Seoul home, he found it surrounded by guards. His activities, the government announced, will be limited to "fulfilling his daily necessities...
...Americans who were mistreated at the airport were outraged. Derian called on Reagan to cancel the Chun visit. The State Department promptly lodged a protest with Seoul, but indicated that the Reagan-Chun meeting would go ahead "as scheduled...
More worrisome for Chun is Kim's potential role as a focus for dissent. Only a few days before his arrival, an estimated 50,000 people attended a political rally in downtown Seoul. Afterward, 1,000 protesters marched through the streets chanting, "Down with the dictatorship...
...political situation is any worse, or the same as it is today, we can be sure that we will once again face difficulties" at the Seoul Games, he said...