The World - News from April 29, 1988
South Korea’s Kim Dae Jung, flushed with his new position as the leader of the nation’s strongest opposition party, declared he will insist on “liquidating the legacy” of the regime headed by former President Chun Doo Hwan. In his first news conference since his Party for Peace and Democracy emerged from Tuesday’s National Assembly election with 71 seats, or 24% of the total, Kim said his party will demand an investigation of the army’s role in the 1980 Kwangju uprising, in which at least 194 people were killed, and of alleged corruption by Chun and his relatives.
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