The World - News from July 5, 1988
President Roh Tae Woo nominated a retired judge as South Korea’s chief justice after the opposition-controlled National Assembly (Parliament) imposed a humiliating veto on his first choice. A presidential spokesman said that Roh abandoned plans to promote Chung Ki Sung and instead chose Lee Il Kyu, one of several people recommended by the opposition. In the first show of opposition muscle since Roh’s Democratic Justice Party lost its majority in April, the National Assembly on Saturday voted down Roh’s nominee.
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