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The government will decide by next month whether to strip disgraced former presidents Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo of decorations they were awarded for their role in Chun’s Dec. 12, 1979 putsch. Government Information Agency chief Kim Chang-ho said Wednesday a policy meeting agreed the list of those to be stripped of decorations will be finalized in a Cabinet meeting next month. The move follows a legal revision that empowers the home affairs minister to propose withdrawing medals without consulting the agencies at whose recommendation they were awarded.
Earlier, Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan urged ministers to be fair in deciding who deserves to be stripped of their medals given their role in the coup, adding no exception should be made for the two former leaders.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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