The World - News from Feb. 14, 1989
South Korean riot police battled thousands of club-wielding anti-American demonstrators trying to storm the Parliament building in Seoul, witnesses said. The rioters were among more than 15,000 farmers and dissidents who gathered outside the National Assembly to protest U.S. trade pressures, the presence of American troops on the peninsula and President Bush’s planned visit to Seoul on Feb. 27. There were no reports of serious injuries or arrests. Meanwhile, North Korea accused South Korean soldiers of opening fire at a civilian police post on the northern side of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas.
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