The World - News from Aug. 4, 1989

South Korean opposition leader Kim Dae Jung said that a 22-hour interrogation by security agents failed to implicate him in an unauthorized trip last year to Communist North Korea by National Assembly member Suh Kyung Won, who was arrested June 28 and charged with espionage. Kim told a news conference at the headquarters of his Party for Peace and Democracy that he was cleared of any suspicion, and he charged that his questioning by authorities was an effort to undermine his party’s image. Suh was expelled from Kim’s party after his arrest. Government security officials said that since questioning was legally limited to 24 hours and Kim issued “adamant denials,” they simply ran out of time.