South Korea also made incipient moves to deal with the past. Under dictatorial rule between 1948 and 1987, in a period of democratization in 1960–1 legislation was passed to permit the prosecution of past abuses and a purge of the military was planned. However, all measures came to nothing in the face of US opposition and a coup by Major General Park Chung Hee. In 1988 a second attempt was made ..
