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Without continued hope and activism in South Korea, Kim said that the current political situation will worsen and that by 1988 all that would remain is a "highly polarized political system" with an "extreme left and extreme right party. Democracy and security are inseperable...
During the luncheon, Visiting Law School Professor Phillip Alstron questioned whether or not stability would improve the current situation in light of Kim's statement that U.S. support of the current government is a major obstacle to democracy. Alstron, who called current U.S. human rights programs "cosmetic," suggested that instability might be an advantageous in drawing President Reagan's support...
Barbara Webber, representing Abernathy and Mitchell a public relations firm in Washington. D.C. that has organized and publicized Kim's return, said they "hoped to prevent a situation similar to the Aquino affair." In 1983, the Philippine dissident returned from exile only to be assassinated as he stepped off the plane...
According to Webber, Chun's government has already forbidden press coverage of Kim's arrival at the airport. The only documentation of the event will be by those reporters who travel with Kim to South Korea. Webber suggested that the Aquino incident was made possible by the absence of press coverage...
Harvard professor of Sociology Ezra Vogel expressed similar doubts at a fundraiser of the ACHR last night. Vogel called Kim "heroic" and his suffering "horrendous," but added that he "was not sure that [Kim's return] was a good thing for either Kim or South Korea...