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...South Korea. Given Kim Il Sung's desire to unify Korea under his own brutal leadership, progress may be impossible until he passes from the scene. But even Kim, a pure Stalinist, has shown a willingness to open more lines of communication with Seoul, and South Korean President Roh Tae Woo himself predicts a North-South summit soon...
...government agreed to send a delegation to Panmunjom on Feb. 8 to discuss arrangements for a meeting between Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk and his South Korean counterpart, Kang Young Hoon. Seoul had proposed such a meeting last year, hoping for an eventual summit between South Korean President Roh Tae Woo and North Korean President Kim Il Sung...
While many Koreans were touched by Chun's self-humiliation, others were unmoved. Opposition leaders called for further investigation, and radical demonstrators demanding Chun's arrest battled with police. By the weekend President Roh Tae Woo, who has tried to distance himself from his former close friend, called for national forgiveness for Chun. Asked Roh: "When he himself apologized deeply, how can we stone the former President alone on the grounds that there were many mistakes in the past?" But Roh stopped short of granting his predecessor the official pardon Chun had hoped for. Roh's caution probably reflects...
Such are the Amateur's Games. The issue of amateurism shadows every discussion at the current Olympics, and not just because Korean President Roh Tae Woo has dubbed this the "Era of the Ordinary Man." All the divisions - have grown increasingly blurred, moreover, as governments offer medal winners homes and lifetime incomes. Even the terms are slippery now: the word amateur has actually been excised from the official Olympic lexicon, while professionalism remains a dirty word among those who want flawless efficiency in their plans but not their hearts...
President Roh Tae Woo declared the competition open. In longer form, he told the citizens in a television address, really a pep rally, "Perhaps there has been no occasion before this in which we have been so united with one mind and heart amid rising hope and joy." He signed off on the note of a "safe and flawless Olympic Games...