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Pieter M. Pil '88, a graduate student at MIT, said he is running for a second term because he wanted to continue to work on the Coop's longrange business plan...
...team, tentatively called the Democratic Liberal Party, embraces his own Democratic Justice Party, Kim Young Sam's Reunification Democratic Party and Kim Jong Pil's National Democratic Republican Party. This leaves Kim Dae Jung, head of the Party for Peace and Democracy, out in the cold with a mere 71 seats in the 299-seat legislature...
...existing 52. There was speculation that Kim Dae Jung would try to push aside Kim Young Sam and head the two opposition parties, though so far he has merely said he will seek "common ground" with other opposition parties. Meanwhile, a third and more conservative opposition group, Kim Jong Pil's New Democratic Republican Party, won a respectable 35 seats in its first election. Political insiders speculated that President Roh might be tempted to seek an accommodation with that party, which controls just enough votes to give Roh a working majority...
With 83 percent of the vote counted, Roh, a former army general, was leading with 37 percent, the National Election Commission said. Opposition candidate Kim Young-sam trailed with 26.7 percent, followed by rival opposition candidates Kim Dae-jung with 26.1 percent and Kim Jong-pil with 8 percent...
...failure to choose one candidate, especially since the two Kims see almost eye-to-eye on the issues. That will make the election a four-way contest with Roh, who is campaigning as a champion of democracy but is opposed by student activists, and former Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, a conservative long shot. Warned the Seoul Dong-A Ilbo, an influential paper: "The two must remember that a split in the opposition party means the breakup of power, resulting in self- destruction, for which both must assume political responsibility." The admonition, however, failed to impress the two Kims last...