SOUTH KOREA: 200,000 PEOPLE ATTEND RALLY CONDEMNING NORTH KOREA

Record ID: 215196

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: 200,000 PEOPLE ATTEND RALLY CONDEMNING NORTH KOREA
  • Date: 1st February 1968
  • Summary: RALLY; SPEAKERS ADDRESSING CROWN; EFFIGY OF PREMIER KIM BURNED. Initials AA/VS/AS/SS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th February 1968 12:00
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  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Reuters ID: LVAF2AT9EE56X6U2SEYZ3IPM9G64
  • Story Text: PRESIDENT CHUNG-HEE PARK OF SOUTH KOREA WARNED TODAY (THURSDAY) THAT HIS COUNTRY MIGHT RETALIATE IF NORTH KOREA CONTINUED PROVOCATIONS SUCH AS LAST WEEK'S GUERRILLA RAID ON SEOUL AND THE SEIZURE OF THE U.S. SPY SHIP PUEBLO. THE PRESIDENT'S FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE KOREAN CRISIS CAME FOLLOWING YESTERDAY'S MASSIVE DEMONSTRATION IN THE CAPITAL. 200,000 PEOPLE TOOK PART IN THE RALLY CONDEMNING THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO MURDER PRESIDENT PARK, AND THE PUEBLO INCIDENT.

    THE SOUTH KOREANS PACKED THE HUGE CITY HALL PLAZA TO HEAR SPEAKERS ATTACK THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE PRESIDENT PARK BY GUERRILLA INFILTRATORS. ACCORDING TO THE SOUTH KOREANS THE INFILTRATORS CROSSED TO THE SOUTH ON JANUARY 21ST. SOME GOT WITHIN A FEW MILES OF THE PRESIDENT'S RESIDENCE.

    SPONSORS OF THE RALLY CALLED FOR RETALIATION AGAINST THE NORTH KOREANS AND ADOPTED A RESOLUTION SAYING NORTH KOREAN PREMIER KIM SHOULD BE BURNED IN EFFIGY FOR HIS "BARBAROUS" ACTS.

    IN THE SQUARE DOTTED WITH HUGE POSTERS READING "KILL COMMUNIST MURDERERS AND PROTECT THE FATHERLAND," A TEN-FOOT HIGH (3 METRES) EFFIGY OF PREMIER KIM WAS SOAKED IN PETROL AND SET ALIGHT.
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