Thousands in South Korea urge US troops to leave

May 14th, 2006 at 12:38 Björn Hallberg

About 4,000 protestors including activists, workers and student radicals occupied Chongno Street near the American embassy in central Seoul, holding candles as they chanted songs, shouted slogans and waved banners.

Thousands of riot police, backed by fire trucks with water cannons, stood guard over the protest Saturday fearing a repeat of last week’s fighting in Pyongtaek.

The protesters carried banners calling for the withdrawal of US troops and an end to the ongoing talks to conclude a free trade agreement with the United States.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Han Myung-Sook claims “alliance with the United States was key to regional stability.” In the same way Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939, or the Soviet Union’s interventions in Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968) were keys to regional stability.

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