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South Korea’s opposition and its ruling party agreed to pull back from their political confrontation and resume parliamentary committee talks on constitutional reform. The agreement came at a meeting between leaders of the dissidents’ New Korea Democratic Party and the ruling Democratic Justice Party. The opposition wants direct presidential elections next year to choose a successor to Chun Doo Hwan, who is due to step down in 1988 at the end of a mandate granted by an electoral college in 1981.
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