SOUTH KOREA-NORTH KOREA/PROTEST South Korean protesters rally against North Korea near border area

Record ID: 142724

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA-NORTH KOREA/PROTEST South Korean protesters rally against North Korea near border area
  • Date: 24th August 2015
  • Summary: PAJU, SOUTH KOREA (AUGUST 24, 2015) (REUTERS) ANTI-NORTH KOREAN PROTESTERS HOLDING UP BANNERS, PUNCHING FISTS INTO AIR AND CHANTING, AS TWO HOLD NORTH KOREAN FLAG READING (Korean): "STAB (KIM JONG UN) TO DEATH" MORE OF ANTI-NORTH KOREAN PROTESTERS HOLDING UP BANNERS, PUNCHING FISTS INTO AIR AND CHANTING SOUTH KOREAN PROTEST LEADER PARK CHAN-SUNG KICKING EFFIGY OF NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG UN WHILE OTHER PROTESTER TRAMPLES ON AND HITS EFFIGY OF KIM VARIOUS OF ANTI-NORTH KOREAN PROTESTER CHOPPING PICTURE OF KIM USING AN AXE ANTI-NORTH KOREAN PROTESTERS TEARING NORTH KOREAN FLAG ANTI-NORTH KOREAN BANNER READING (English): "KIM JONG UN! OUT" (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN PROTEST LEADER, PARK CHAN-SUNG, SAYING: "Our people and the international society cannot accept North Korea's offer of compromise through talks without making any apology, punishing persons in charge and promising not to repeat its provocation." ANTI-NORTH KOREAN PROTESTER SPEAKING ON MICROPHONE WHILE OTHERS HOLD UP BANNERS ANTI-NORTH KOREAN PROTESTERS CHANTING AND HOLDING UP BANNERS (Korean and English): "BLOW UP STATUES OF KIM IL SUNG AND KIM JONG IL (LEFT)/ KIM JONG UN! OUT! ALL OF OUR PEOPLE STRONGLY CONDEMN HIM!" ANTI-NORTH KOREAN PROTESTERS CHANTING AND HOLDING UP BANNERS/ RIPPED PICTURES OF KIM AND BROKEN EFFIGY OF KIM ON STREET RIPPED PICTURES OF KIM AND BROKEN EFFIGY OF KIM ON STREET
  • Embargoed: 8th September 2015 13:00
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  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAEXE7EE1OTLZJ1KX16XDYCE7I7
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: South Korean protesters on Monday (August 24) held an anti-North Korea rally in the border area, as senior politicians from North and South Korea held marathon negotiations in a bid to defuse tensions.
    South Korean police estimated about 200 people took part in the rally at unification bridge in Paju, close to the border with North Korea, about 50km (30miles) north of Seoul.
    Angry protesters hacked at an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and ripped the North Korean flag. Some held anti-North placards and chanted slogans such as "Kim Jong Un Out!" and "All of our people strongly condemn Kim!"
    South Korean President Park Geun-hye demanded on Monday that North Korea apologise over recent landmine blasts. Park said anti-North propaganda broadcasts would continue unless Pyongyang took responsibility for landmine explosions early this month that wounded two South Korean soldiers in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating the two countries.
    North Korea denies it laid the mines. Seoul and Pyongyang have remained technically in a state of war since the 1950-53 Korean war ended in a truce, rather than a peace treaty.
    Protest leader, Park Chan-sung reiterated that the North needed to apologise.
    "Our people and the international society cannot accept North Korea's offer of compromise through talks without making any apology, punishing persons in charge and promising not to repeat its provocation," said protest leader Park Chan-sung.
    Top officials from North and South Korea on Monday morning had negotiated through a second straight night in bid to defuse tensions that have brought the peninsula to the brink of armed conflict.
    The negotiations at the Panmunjom truce village inside the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) began on Saturday (August 22) evening, shortly after North Korea's deadline passed for Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts or face military action. They broke up before dawn on Sunday (August 23) and restarted that afternoon.
    The landmine blasts escalated into a crisis that saw both sides exchange artillery fire on Thursday (August 20) and ramp up their military readiness. The United Nations, the United States and the North's lone major ally, China, have all called for calm.
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