Chun Says He Will Testify Before S. Korea Parliament
Disgraced former President Chun Doo Hwan plans to honor a parliamentary request to testify before the year ends on events that took place during his rule, government officials and his aides said Monday.
Lee Chun Goo, secretary-general of the ruling Democratic Justice Party, said his party had been informed that Chun accepted a request by two special parliamentary committees that he appear for testimony Sunday.
The committees, digging into alleged government wrongdoing between 1980 and Chun’s retirement last year, issued a summons to Chun that was relayed to the former president Sunday at a Buddhist temple where he now lives in internal exile with his wife.
The committees attached to the summons a list of 123 questions they want Chun to touch on in his testimony.
“The former president said he will comply with the request for parliamentary appearance . . . within this year . . . “ said Lee Yang Woo, the lawyer representing him in Seoul who delivered the summons.
Chun will be required to make only one appearance for testimony. Differences remain over other details of the appearance.
In November, 1988, Chun publicly apologized to the nation for his past misdeeds.
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