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...remember the bloody riots that followed his rise to power in 1980. His efforts to exert greater control over the nation's industries failed, though he is given credit for reviving the economy and building South Korea's diplomatic ties, most notably with Third World countries like Burma and Sri Lanka...
...friends and classmates, those Etonians who were going on to do great things in government and the arts. So he chose the course his father had taken and left the country; he joined the Imperial Indian Police and was dispatched to keep order among the colonial subjects in Burma...
South Korea. Political flux seems to have become the norm in South Korea. Last year President Chun Doo Hwan ousted half of his 22-member Cabinet after a scandal arose involving illegal loans and fraud by moneylenders with connections to his government. On a visit to Burma last month, 14 leading South Korean officials, including four Cabinet ministers, were killed in a terrorist bombing...
...will hold 1984 spending to 1983 levels. Board Member Suh Sang Mok, a senior researcher at the Korea Development Institute, predicted that, even with the new austerity program, his country would have 8% growth in 1984. He was optimistic about the government's ability to recover from the Burma bombing. "The policymakers who replaced the old Cabinet share the same philosophy," he said, "so our present economic directions will be maintained...
Upon his return to Seoul, President Chun described the bombing as a "tenacious provocation by the band of Communists in North Korea." A possible motive: North Korean frustration over South Korea's increasingly active diplomacy toward nations that, like Burma, maintain ties with North Korea. The government of North Korea called the accusation "preposterous and ridiculous." Police in Rangoon arrested two Koreans last week, though there was no confirmation that they were from the North. The Burmese reported that another Korean was killed when he tried to escape arrest...