The World - News from Aug. 1, 1985
The State Department criticized the house arrest of South Korean opposition leader Kim Dae Jung as being against the trend toward greater democracy in that country. Department spokesman Charles Redman said the Seoul government apparently intends to keep Kim from participating in the national convention of his political movement, the opposition New Korea Democratic Party, scheduled for today and Friday. The former presidential candidate returned to his homeland five months ago, after two years’ U.S. exile.
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