WORLD IN BRIEF : SOUTH KOREA : Auto Workers Brace for a Police Raid
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Thousands of striking workers seeking higher pay holed up inside South Korea’s largest auto plant used new trucks and cars to reinforce barricades against a possible police raid. Hooded and masked workers wielding steel pipes guarded major gates at the sprawling Hyundai Motor Co. plant in the industrial port city of Ulsan, 200 miles southeast of Seoul.
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