The World - News from Jan. 27, 1989
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Former President Chun Doo Hwan defied South Korea’s National Assembly, refusing to testify on his role in the army’s suppression of an uprising in 1980. Officials took the order issued by the National Assembly demanding Chun’s cooperation to the remote east coast Buddhist temple where he is now living, but the former president refused it, thus risking prosecution. Instead, Chun issued a statement that accepted moral responsibility for the Kwangju massacre, in which more than 200 people were killed and over 1,000 injured.
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