SOUTH KOREA: Around 300 conservative protesters hold an anti-North Korea rally in Seoul, to mark the third anniversary of North Korea's shelling of a border island which killed four people

Record ID: 214097

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: Around 300 conservative protesters hold an anti-North Korea rally in Seoul, to mark the third anniversary of North Korea's shelling of a border island which killed four people
  • Date: 23rd November 2013
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (NOVEMBER 23, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF SOUTH KOREAN CONSERVATIVE PROTESTERS BURNING EFFIGY OF NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG-UN, PROTESTERS CHANTING ANTI-NORTH KOREA SLOGANS:" POLICE EXTINGUISHING FIRE ON EFFIGY WHILE SCUFFLING WITH PROTESTERS POLICE POURING WATER ON BURNING EMBERS/ PROTESTERS CHANTING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS CHANTING ANTI-NORTH SLOGANS: "EXECUTE KIM JONG-UN! BOMB NORTH KOREA!" (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN PROTESTER CHOO SEON-HEE SAYING: "Today is the third anniversary of North Korea's shelling of Yeonpyeong island. Because North Korea attacked South Korean people and soldiers, we are here to send a message, 'do not forget this day'". PROTESTER PLACING FLOWER ON TABLE FLOWERS BEING PLACED ON TABLE PROTESTERS STANDING PORTRAIT OF VICTIMS
  • Embargoed: 8th December 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Korea, Republic of
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA1U1FZ3YLH58F1XBN2EZGOFFYF
  • Story Text: Conservative protesters in South Korea held an anti-North Korea rally on Saturday (November 23) to mark the third anniversary of North Korea's shelling of the border island of Yeonpyeong.
    About 300 protesters gathered in the capital of Seoul and burned an effigy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, while chanting, "execute Kim Jong-un! Bomb North Korea!"

    "Today is the third anniversary of North Korea's shelling of Yeonpyeong island. Because North Korea attacked South Korean people and soldiers, we are here to send a message, 'do not forget this day'," said South Korean protester Choo Seon-hee.
    On November 23, 2013 North Korea fired scores of artillery shells at South Korea's Yeonpyeong island killing four people including two civilians, in one of the heaviest attacks on its neighbour since the Korean War ended in 1953.
    It took many months for tension between the rivals to ease but it spiked again in March this year, during annual joint military exercises by the South and the United States. The North, which has conducted three nuclear tests, threatened nuclear attacks against the allies.
    In 2010, the North said it was provoked into attacking Yeonpyeong, which is off the peninsula's west coast, because of a South Korean live-fire exercise in the area that dropped shells in its territorial waters.
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