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...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...
...speaker at an executive council meeting of South Korea's ruling Democratic Justice Party had labored over his speech at home all weekend. He dictated the final version to his secretary, who drafted a single handwritten copy. So when Party Chairman Roh Tae Woo got up to speak last week and pulled that piece of paper from his suit-jacket pocket, virtually no one in the crowded room was aware that history was about to be made...
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...
...Kims can be as rigid and unyielding as President Chun. They showed that last April, when they broke away from what used to be the main opposition faction, the New Korea Democrats, to form the Reunification Party. At issue was a power struggle with Lee Min Woo, a leader of the older party, who was willing to compromise with the government on the shape of national elections in exchange for concessions that included greater press freedom and the release of political prisoners. The Kims' walkout left Lee's New Korea Democrats with a greatly reduced bloc of 22 seats...