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SPECIAL ANALYSES
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Succession Problems
The succession process will be complicated by two problems. Plrst, legal provisions for selecting the president are designed specifically to perpetuate the incumbent In^power rather than toree and open election. /
Jockeying among would-be aspirants for conference votes will undoubtedly increase after Pak's funeral on Saturday. ight for votes within the conference could easily lead to political confusion and acrimonious The military might then choose didate who would be forced through the
"ihC^seexwva^lirW involves mounting pressure for politicalreform. Nearly all segments of Korean society and - elements of the government favor the fashioning;ore' relaxed political environment, but they also recognise -the difficulty of attempting to revise. the-.authorltarlan Tushin Constitution in the near term. 1 I
Even so, many Koreans view the question of legal reform as an urgent one, for any. successor taxing office...
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under the Yushin eystera will have the legal meant--as didruling Indefinitely. Tha opposition Mew Dea-ocratic Psrty probably will seek to have any successor commit himself in advance to constitutional reforsM Introduce another method of presidential selection.
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