THE KILLING of South Korean dictator park Chung Hee October has been CouLpiele Hystery: - by the media. But things become a lot clearer once one asks the classic question: whose interests did it serve?
You'd never guess it trom the press, but the three Park's death were marked by massive protests against the regime.
They were set off by the expulsion of New Democratic Party leader Kim Young Sam the Assembly on 4 October. October the entire opposition resigned. was on CHIL presented as a felt pressure angered by the expulsion'.
the country's the protests On down President Syngman •bloc Kim's advice: Washington Post correspond• William Chapman commented closed. that 'the opposition party's almost unanimous decision would not have occurred unless many members had Trom constituents Three days later, on 16 October, that anger exploded onto the streets in second-largest city, Pusan: Park's response was to declare martial law there, but on 18 October - perhaps the biggest since the upsurge of 1960 that brought Rhee spread to the industrial city of Masan. There, as in Pusan, troops were sent