미국 5.18 기밀 문서 사본 43건 한국 정부 전달<br /><br />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.<br />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.<br />Most of them are unredacted versions that Washington had previously declassified with some parts deleted.<br />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.<br />
