U.S. sends S. Korea declassified documents on 1980 pro-democracy movement
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The United States has provided South Korea with declassified documents on the pro-democracy movement that took place in the southwestern city of Gwangju in May 1980.
Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday that it had asked for related documents to be declassified last November and in response, Washington sent over 140 pages of State Department documents.
Most of them are unredacted versions that Washington had previously declassified with some parts deleted.
The handover of the documents is raising hopes they could help uncover the truth behind the brutal military crackdown on the movement now dubbed the cradle of South Korea's democracy.
The United States has provided South Korea with declassified documents on the pro-democracy movement that took place in the southwestern city of Gwangju in May 1980.
Seoul's foreign ministry said Tuesday that it had asked for related documents to be declassified last November and in response, Washington sent over 140 pages of State Department documents.
Most of them are unredacted versions that Washington had previously declassified with some parts deleted.
The handover of the documents is raising hopes they could help uncover the truth behind the brutal military crackdown on the movement now dubbed the cradle of South Korea's democracy.