Anti-Regime Rally Staged in S. Korea
More than 3,000 students and dissidents staged an anti-government rally and clashed with riot squads in Korea’s second-largest city Saturday, police said.
About 3,000 people were gathered on the Pusan University campus in Pusan, 205 miles southeast of Seoul, for the rally held to oppose the ruling Democratic Liberal Party which controls the National Assembly.
Students began hurling firebombs and rocks at police who countered with tear gas to put down the disturbance, police said. Police said about 700 Molotov cocktails were thrown.
Student leaders contacted by phone on campus said police fired barrages of tear gas from four armored vehicles. The protesters fought police across the main school gate, they said.
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