But politicians in Cardiff Bay were today focused on a different kind of deficit - the gap between political activity in the National Assembly for Wales and media coverage of it - or the lack of it.

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The following May, in the face of demonstrations calling for his resignation, Chun proclaimed nationwide martial law, closed down the National Assembly and arrested political opponents.

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Yet the nation's political establishment hardly helped its case when the National Assembly was incapable of convening.

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