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...bars and movie theaters were shut down for three days; store clerks, officeworkers and government officials wore black ties or black ribbons of mourning. As the flag-draped coffins were brought home, the anguished wails of newly widowed women and bereft families once again echoed through the corridors of Seoul's Kimpo Airport...
...Thursday, more than a million South Koreans gathered in a chill rain for an emotional memorial service in Seoul's huge Sixteenth of May Plaza. On a long altar surrounded by thousands of white and yellow chrysanthemums, 17 incense urns were placed in front of photographs of the deceased. Later, military pallbearers wearing white masks, a traditional mark of respect for the dead, led the procession to the cemetery. Representatives from 47 countries were present, including a seven-member U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. In a trembling voice, South Korean Prime Minister Kim Sang Hyup...
Upon his return to Seoul, President Chun described the bombing as a "tenacious provocation by the band of Communists in North Korea." A possible motive: North Korean frustration over South Korea's increasingly active diplomacy toward nations that, like Burma, maintain ties with North Korea. The government of North Korea called the accusation "preposterous and ridiculous." Police in Rangoon arrested two Koreans last week, though there was no confirmation that they were from the North. The Burmese reported that another Korean was killed when he tried to escape arrest...
...Rangoon was the first stop in an 18-day swing through six Asian and Pacific nations, was three minutes away from the memorial when the bomb, apparently meant for him, went off. His motorcade immediately turned away; soon afterward, the President cut short the journey and flew back to Seoul with his wife. Cabinet members who had not accompanied the President on the tour quickly convened in the South Korean capital, ordered the country's armed forces and police on special alert, and set up a task force of vice ministers to deal with the crisis. Barely before...
...progress and emergence on the world state. Chun plans to be away during much of October on a busy itinerary of state visits in South-east Asia and Oceania President Reagan will visit Korea in November. These two events and the IPU conference should dominate the news from Seoul over the next few months. Perhaps because of the predicted unrest. KAL007 is beginning to recede from the headlines, even in Seoul...