Editing Roh Tae-woo (section)

===Merging of political parties in 1990===
In order to overcome the paralysis of governing due to lack of majority support in the National Assembly, the Roh government sought to attain "a grand compromise" in partisan politics. A party merger was announced on 22 January 1990 in an attempt to accomplish this political objective. The ruling Democratic Justice Party merged with two opposition parties, Kim Young-sam's Reunification and Democracy Party and [[Kim Jong-pil]]'s New Democratic Republican Party. The new established [[New Korea Party|Democratic Liberal Party]], which commanded a more than two-thirds majority in the legislature, sought to establish political stability so as to enable socio-economic progress. However, the merger was fraught with factional infighting, undermining his administration's handling on national affairs.<ref name="Health">{{cite news |date= 26 October 2021|title= (5th LD) Former President Roh Tae-woo dies at 88|url= https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20211026007955315?section=national/politics|access-date= 27 October 2021}}</ref>