SITUATION REPORT
SOUTH KOREA
govefT^ent is taking steps to ensure stability limity in the uake of President Fak Chung-hui'e death.
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radio yesterdayengthy account of tbe President's death, sourced to the Defense Security Command, which is in charge of investigating thaent. This official account, although described as learly is designed to dispel rumors of av> coup attempt. It charged that Korean CentralAgency Director Kim Chae-kyu killed both Pax and his bodyguard, Cha Chl-chol,eated argument over Kim's performance in the top security post.
Korean press is stressing unity inconfusion ot "social disorder" that" encourage North Korea to move against the South. _nr.cnt offices arc open for regular hours andaw troops and plain clotheomen were in evidence day.- The government party has made public-- calling for cooperation with the martial law forces and
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The opposition New Democratic Party has ordered flags flown at half-mast at all party offices. Party leader Kim Yong-sam, whose expulsion from the National Assembly early this month sparked much of the political tension In South Korea during the past month, issued a
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The North Korean press has played the Pak deathlow-key manner. engthy commentator article inparty daily yesterday said that the slaying provedof the political and economic situation inbut it noted that Pak'a "fascist rule" The article, however, did not directlymartial.law government,
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