President roh tae woo

In this Dec. Yonhap via AP. He was It gave no further details. Roh was a key participant in the military coup that made his army friend and coup leader Chun Doo-hwan president after their mentor, dictator Park Chung-hee, was assassinated earlier in Roh led his army division into Seoul and joined other military leaders for operations to seize the capital.

About people were killed in the military-led crackdowns in Gwangju, according to government records.

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His victory in the hotly contested December election was largely attributable to a split in opposition votes between Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung, who both later became presidents. South Korea was then deeply anti-communist because of its rivalry with North Korea, but under Roh it opened diplomatic relations with a communist nation for the first time--Hungary in , the year when the Berlin Wall fell and communism crumbled across Eastern Europe.

Roh established relations with the Soviet Union in and with China in Ties between the rivals have suffered huge setbacks and subsequent retreats in recent years, with Pyongyang pursuing a nuclear weapons program it sees as a means of survival.