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Senator presses South Korea to honor beef deal
Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English
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By the time the final brace was welded to the immense metallic fortress in the centre of Seoul, the country knew that this was no longer just about an unpopular policy to resume imports of American beef. (article 2)
The new presidency of Lee Myung Bak is in meltdown and his closest political allies - including the Prime Minister - resigned yesterday en masse. (article 2)
The sight of a 20ft "Berlin Wall" of shipping containers blotting out all view of the presidential residence revealed a Government rattled to the core. (article 2)
Many thousands of demonstrators are rallying late into the night in Seoul in the latest protest sparked by anger over US beef imports into South Korea. (article 1)
The protesters are angry that South Korea has agreed to resume imports of US beef, which were suspended in 2003 after an outbreak of BSE, or mad cow disease, in cattle there. (article 1)
Some 20,000 riot police were mobilised in Seoul, and thousands more elsewhere in South Korea, ahead of Tuesday night's large protests. (article 1)
Earlier on Tuesday, police stationed huge shipping containers at the Kwangwhamun intersection in central Seoul, trying to block protesters' access to government buildings and the presidential Blue House. (article 1)
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beef, Lee, Korea, Seoul, South |
Source articles
- S Koreans rally against US beef (BBC News, 06/10/2008, 602 words)
- South Korean Government of Lee Myung Bak in meltdown (timesonline.co.uk, 06/11/2008, 755 words)
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