SOUTH KOREA: Around 200 conservative activists protest against North Korean nuclear test plan

Record ID: 213874

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: Around 200 conservative activists protest against North Korean nuclear test plan
  • Date: 6th February 2013
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FEBRUARY 6, 2013) (REUTERS) SOUTH KOREA'S CONSERVATIVE PROTESTERS STANDING NORTH KOREAN NATIONAL FLAG ON MODEL OF NUCLEAR ROCKET VARIOUS OF PROTESTER DESTROYING MODEL OF NUCLEAR ROCKET BY KICKING AND PUNCHING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING VARIOUS OF DESTROYED ROCKET MODEL (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREA'S CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST BONG TAE-HONG SAYING: "North Korea's (planned) nuclear test is not for defensive weapons, but for offensive weapons. That's why the international society condemns the country and put it under sanctions. If the North enforces the third nuclear test, we should work together to completely isolate the country." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING VARIOUS OF PROTESTER BURNING NORTH KOREAN NATIONAL FLAG
  • Embargoed: 21st February 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Korea, Republic of
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAEC0VSYD9YE7AH08XSTKBI8K0E
  • Story Text: South Korean conservative activists rally against North Korea's plan to possibly carry out a third nuclear test, which is expected to be imminent.
    About two hundred protesters gathered in downtown Seoul for the anti-North Korea rally. Protesters built and then destroyed what they said was a model of a North Korean nuclear rocket. The isolated state's national flag was also burnt during the protest.
    "North Korea's (planned) nuclear test is not for defensive weapons, but for offensive weapons. That's why the international society condemns the country and put it under sanctions. If the North enforces the third nuclear test, we should work together to completely isolate the country," said Bong Tae-hong, one of the protesters.
    North Korea successfully launched a long-range rocket in December in violation of U.N. resolutions that banned it from developing missile or nuclear technology after nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009. UNSC 2087 was adopted in late January in response to the December launch.
    It announced plans for a third nuclear test in response to the sanctions agreed in January, although satellite imagery indicates that the isolated and impoverished state has been readying its test site for more than a year.
    While most experts believe North Korea will stage a test, the timing is not known. It could come around February 16, the anniversary of former leader Kim Jong-il's birth.
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