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Article: Chun's option: to crush or concede. (Chun Doo Hwan in South Korea)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 29, 1987
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Chun's option: To crush or concede
For a while, it appeared that a surprisingshow of restraint by Chun Doo Hwan last week might just be enough to finesse the latest outbreak of student riots in South Korea. But a brief lull was followed by even larger and fiercer disorders that quickly spread from the capital of Seoul to a half-dozen provincial cities. And with student ranks swelled for the first time by ordinary, working-class Koreans, it was plain that Chun's autocratic government was facing its most serious crisis. Those clamoring for long-delayed reforms now threaten the transition he has so carefully orchestrated for passing power to a handpicked ...