SOUTH KOREA: ANTI WAR PROTESTORS SCUFFLE WITH POLICE AS 300 SOUTH KOREAN NON COMBAT TROOPS DEPART FOR IRAQ
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SOUTH KOREA: ANTI WAR PROTESTORS SCUFFLE WITH POLICE AS 300 SOUTH KOREAN NON COMBAT TROOPS DEPART FOR IRAQ
- Title: SOUTH KOREA: ANTI WAR PROTESTORS SCUFFLE WITH POLICE AS 300 SOUTH KOREAN NON COMBAT TROOPS DEPART FOR IRAQ
- Date: 30th April 2003
- Summary: (W1) SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (APRIL 30, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF PROTEST 0.05 2. VARIOUS OF SCUFFLES BETWEEN PROTESTERS AND POLICE OUTSIDE SUNGNAM AIRPORT (4 SHOTS) 0.36 3. WIDE OF RIOT POLICE HOLDING BACK DEMONSTRATORS 0.43 4. VARIOUS OF DEPARTURE CEREMONY WITH MILITARY BAND PLAYING (2 SHOTS) 0.56 5. VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS STANDING IN FRONT OF AIRCRAFT (2 SHOTS) 1.05 6. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) CAPTAIN KIM EUN-KYUNG AT MEDICAL UNIT SAYING: "My resolution is that I will do my best, and do not cause any trouble with the locals there and boost the South Korean army's prestige." 1.16 7. VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS BIDDING FAREWELL TO FELLOW SOLDIERS (3 SHOTS) 1.34 8. WIDE OF SOLDIERS GETTING ON AIRCRAFT 1.40 9. SMV OF SOLDIERS POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS, HOLDIGN GIANT SOUTH KOREAN FLAG 1.46 10. WIDE OF SOLDIERS POSING ON STEPS OF AIRCRAFT WAVING SOUTH KOREAN FLAG 1.50 11. SMV SOLDIERS WAVING SMALL SOUTH KOREAN FLAGS 1.54 12. WIDE OF SOLDIERS WAVING AT DEPARTING COLLEAGUES 2.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: SEOUL AND SUNGNAM, SOUTH KOREA
- Country: South Korea
- Reuters ID: LVA501N69YAIAFOH6HZC0XJTKBAG
- Story Text: South Korean anti-war protesters scuffled with police
outside the airport where the country's non-combat troops left
for Iraq.
About 40 South Korean anti-war activists scuffled with
police on Wednesday (April 30) morning outside Sungnam
(pronounced as SEONG NAHM) airport, protesting non-combat
troops' dispatch to Iraq.
The protesters carried banners with slogans in Korean and
English saying "No war" and "We are against the dispatch" and
tried to go into the airport to stop the plane.
Inside the airport, more than 300 engineering and medical
troops held a small ceremony before their departure, and a
female medical officer said she would do her best to help
locals and coalition forces.
"My resolution is that I will do my best, and do not cause
any trouble with the locals there and boost the South Korean
army's prestige," said Captain Kim Eun-kyung (pronounced as
KIM EUN-KYOUNG).
South Korea's parliament agreed earlier this month to send
non-combat troops to Iraq amid violent protest, after
President Roh Moo-hyun told parliament the decision was
crucial for peace on the divided peninsula as it will cement
the close alliance with the U.S.
South Korea, host to 37,000 U.S. soldiers, send 700
medical and engineering troops. The first group of 20 soldiers
were sent to Iraq on April 20, and the last group will depart
South Korea on May 14.
North Korea, which remains technically at war with Seoul
after 1950-53 war, had criticised the decision by saying
sending troops meant backing U.S. ambitions to invade the
North.
South Korea's decision to send the troops was a criminal
act that would heighten tensions on the divided Korean
peninsula, Yonhap quoted North Korean television as saying.
North and South Korea agreed to solve the nuclear issue
peacefully at the ministerial level talks on Wednesday (April
30), which came after trilateral negotiations in Beijing
between North Korea, U.S. and China.
U.S. officials said North Korea disclosed it had nuclear
bombs during the Beijing meeting which ended on Friday
(April 25).
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