SOUTH KOREA: Conservative activists protest against North Korea's third nuclear test

Record ID: 213886

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: Conservative activists protest against North Korea's third nuclear test
  • Date: 12th February 2013
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FEBRUARY 12, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ANTI-NORTH KOREA PROTESTERS SLASHING NORTH KOREAN FLAGS AND PICTURE OF NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG-IL AND HIS WIFE RI SOL-JU VARIOUS OF PROTESTER BURNING PIECES OF NORTH KOREAN FLAGS PROTESTERS CHANTING AS PIECES OF FLAGS BURNING BANNER SHOWING PICTURE OF KIM JONG-UN WITH RADIATION SIGN ON IT/ PROTESTERS CHANTING SLOGANS (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) ANTI-NORTH KOREA ACTIVIST CHOO SEON-HEE SAYING: "The whole world opposes it (North Korea's nuclear test). Even the North's ally China opposed the nuclear test, but the North carried out the test. As a citizen of Republic of Korea, we're here to call for a strong punishment to the North's wrongdoing." VARIOUS OF ANTI-NORTH KOREA PROTESTER BURNING NORTH KOREAN FLAG BANNER WITH PICTURE OF KIM JONG-UN AND ATOM SIGN ON IT BURNING PROTESTERS BURNING BANNERS POLICE EXTINGUISHING FLAGS (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) ANTI-NORTH KOREA ACTIVIST PARK CHAN-SUNG SAYING: "We're strongly condemning the Kim Jong-un regime for conducting a nuclear test. We're strongly urging the United Nations and international society to destroy the North's nuclear facilities as well as to impose sanctions. Then the security and peace of the international society will be maintained." PROTESTERS CHANTING SLOGANS WHILE HOLDING UP BANNERS BANNER SHOWING PICTURE OF KIM JONG-UN AND ATOM SIGN ON IT, READING IN KOREAN: "UN AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY MUST IMMEDIATELY STRIKE NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR FACILITY" VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING VARIOUS OF SWAT TEAM IN FRONT OF U.S. EMBASSY IN SEOUL NATIONAL FLAGS OF UNITED STATES AND SOUTH KOREA VARIOUS OF SWAT TEAM MEMBER AIMING GUN POLICE PATROLLING
  • Embargoed: 27th February 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Korea, Republic of
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAE546UBG2YDWO3OUDUCWPQQ6CD
  • Story Text: South Korean protesters condemned North Korea after the isolated state conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday (February 12).
    The North said the test had "greater explosive force" than the 2006 and 2009 tests that were widely seen as small-scale. Its KCNA news agency said it had used a "miniaturized" and lighter nuclear device, indicating that it had again used plutonium which is more suitable for use as a missile warhead.
    North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the third of his line to rule the country, has presided over two long-range rocket launches and a nuclear test during his first a year in power.
    Dozens of protesters gathered outside the U.S. embassy on Tuesday burned North Korea's national flag and photos of leader Kim Jong-un.
    "The whole world opposes it (North Korea's nuclear test). Even the North's ally China opposed the nuclear test, but the North carried out the test. As a citizen of Republic of Korea, we're here to call for a strong punishment to the North's wrongdoing," said Choo Seon-hee, one of protesters.
    "We're strongly condemning the Kim Jong-un regime for conducting a nuclear test. We're strongly urging the United Nations and international society to destroy the North's nuclear facilities as well as to impose sanctions. Then the security and peace of the international society will be maintained," said another protester Park Chan-sung.
    South Korea said the size of the seismic activity indicated a nuclear explosion slightly larger than the North's two previous tests at 6-7 kilotons, although that is still relatively small. The Hiroshima bomb was around 20 kilotons.
    North Korea, which had been threatening a third nuclear test, had informed Beijing and Washington on Monday (February 11) of plans to undertake a test, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported.
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