SOUTH KOREA: South Korean activists hold rally against North Koreas nuclear test plan

Record ID: 213864

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: South Korean activists hold rally against North Koreas nuclear test plan
  • Date: 31st January 2013
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (JANUARY 31, 2013) (REUTERS) ANTI-NORTH KOREA RALLY IN SEOUL PROTESTERS WEARING KIM JONG-UN MASK (RIGHT) AND WEARING RI SOL-JU MASK (LEFT) WITH BEGGING TINS "KIM" BEGGAR'S CAN BANNERS WITH SLOGAN SAYING IN ENGLISH: "KIM JONG-UN OUT" RALLY (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) PROTEST LEADER CHOO SEON-HEE SAYING: "Our country as well as all the world are against North Korea's nuclear test. We hope North Korea should immediately halt any nuclear test (preparation) and come to the dialogue table." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SHOUTING IN KOREAN: "PUNISH HIM"
  • Embargoed: 15th February 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Korea, Republic of
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVABWPSRYOI5EHT7LNV8Q2J6R1TN
  • Story Text: South Korean activists denounce North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, portraying him begging for money to conduct a nuclear test.


    South Korean activists denounced on Thursday (January 31) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju, whom they portrayed begging for money to conduct a nuclear test.
    The rally by about 100 elderly anti-North Korean protesters was held in Seoul at a time of international tension over Pyongyang's possible nuclear test.
    Two protesters, wearing masks of Kim Jong-un and Ri Sol-ju sat at the front of the group with begging tins to make their point.
    "Our country as well as all the world are against North Korea's nuclear test. We hope North Korea should immediately halt any nuclear test (preparation) and come to the dialogue table," said protest leader Choo Seon-hee.
    North Korea threatened last week to attack rival South Korea if Seoul joined a new round of tightened U.N. sanctions, as Washington unveiled more of its own economic restrictions following Pyongyang's rocket launch last month.
    The reclusive North declared a boycott of all dialogue aimed at ending its nuclear programmer and vowed to conduct more rocket and nuclear tests, blaming the U.N. Security Council censuring it for its long-range missile launch in December.
    The launch showed it had the capacity to deliver a rocket that could travel 10,000 km (6,200 miles), potentially putting San Francisco in range, according to a South Korean intelligence assessment.
    South Korean President Lee Myung-bak warned at a security meeting on Thursday that if North Korea misjudged the situation and pushed ahead with further provocation the consequences would be very grave.
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