The World - News from April 4, 1985
South Korea’s two largest opposition parties merged to form a unified front against President Chun Doo Hwan. The alliance results from the merger of the Democratic Korea Party with the New Korea Democratic Party and will retain the latter’s name. The New Korea Democratic Party, formed early this year and backed by dissident leaders Kim Dae Jung and Kim Young Sam, won 68 of 276 seats in the unicameral National Assembly in Feb. 12 elections. That made it the No. 2 party behind Chun’s Democratic Justice Party, which won 148 seats.
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