Tuesday afternoon, as Kim headed back downtown from the cemetery, several hundred riot police lined one side of the central plaza as about 6,000 students and twice that many onlookers listened to anti-government speeches under a banner bearing the message: "There cannot be democratic government without execution of the murderers of the Kwangju massacre."
The riot police were nowhere in sight by the time the crowd grew into the hundreds of thousands.
While students across the country share the sentiments displayed on the banner, Kim has pledged that there will be no political revenge if the opposition comes to power.
