SOUTH KOREA: South Korean protesters hold rally in Seoul against North Korea's recent short-range missile launches

Record ID: 214432

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: South Korean protesters hold rally in Seoul against North Korea's recent short-range missile launches
  • Date: 19th March 2014
  • Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (MARCH 19, 2014) (REUTERS) ANTI-NORTH KOREAN PROTESTERS SETTING FIRE TO NORTH KOREAN FLAG / SOUTH KOREAN POLICE EXTINGUISHING FIRE PROTESTER SETTING FIRE TO PICKETS BEARING PHOTOGRAPHS OF NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG UN AND MISSILES VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS HOLDING PICKETS AND CHANTING PROTESTERS CHANTING WHILE HOLDING NORTH KOREAN FLAG AND PORTRAIT OF NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG UN AND RADIOACTIVITY MARK WITH 'X' ON IT (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) SOUTH KOREAN PROTEST LEADER PARK CHAN-SUNG SAYING: "North Korea keeps firing missiles. The international society and we, South Koreans, cannot tolerate such provocative acts by North Korea." PROTEST IN PROGRESS PICKET BEARING PHOTOGRAPH OF NORTH KOREA LEADER, KIM JONG UN, NORTH KOREAN FLAG AND MISSILES WITH 'X' MARK ON IT PROTESTERS MARCHING ON STREET
  • Embargoed: 3rd April 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Korea, Republic of
  • Country: South Korea
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA5FKPFNWXEX2A8L5NURB7487P
  • Story Text: South Korean protesters held a rally on Wednesday (March 19) against North Korea's recent short-range missile launches.
    North Korea fired 25 short-range rockets into the sea off the east of the Korean peninsula on Sunday (March 16) - an unusually large number - but they were obsolete weapons that were likely around 40 years old, South Korea's Defence Ministry has said.
    About 100 protesters gathered in central Seoul for the rally and burnt North Korean flag as well as pickets bearing photographs of Kim Jong Un and missiles.
    "North Korea keeps firing missiles. The international society and we, South Koreans, cannot tolerate such provocative acts by North Korea," said South Korean protest leader Park Chan-sung.
    North Korea is not banned from short-range missile launches under U.N. sanctions and frequently tests its arsenal.
    The North has toned down its bellicose rhetoric toward the South, although it has denounced the annual joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises that are currently taking place.
    It undertook a series of short-range missile launches earlier this month as the joint exercise, which North Korea views as a threat to its security, started.
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