Ruling Party Backers Storm Seoul Paper
About 200 youth members of the ruling party stormed the building of an influential newspaper on Friday, charging that it was trying to sabotage the party’s presidential campaign, newspaper officials said.
The Democratic Justice Party activists occupied the newsroom at the Dong-a Ilbo in an hourlong protest, they said. A photographer was roughed up and his camera smashed and film seized.
The newspaper’s Friday edition carried a picture purporting to show a ruling party official paying off shoeshine boys and street vendors who attended a party rally after being promised $20 each.
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