Seoul Security Tight for Visit by Pope
More than 37,000 South Korean police officers were placed on anti-terrorist alert Wednesday for this week’s visit by Pope John Paul II, who will carry a message of peace to one of the last frontiers of the Cold War.
The pontiff begins his three-day visit Saturday to take part in the 44th International Eucharistic Congress, capped by an open-air Mass on Sunday expected to draw 600,000.
John Paul, who will be making his 44th foreign visit since his election as Pope in 1978, was last in South Korea in 1984. He later travels to Indonesia and the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius.
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