Court Rules Against Plan to Move Capital
From Times Wire Reports
South Korea’s top court ruled that a special law underpinning a plan to relocate the nation’s capital was unconstitutional, dealing a setback to President Roh Moo Hyun.
The nine-judge Constitutional Court, in a televised verdict, said the government must hold a referendum before moving the capital from Seoul.
The verdict suspends Roh’s plan to shift the seat of government to a rural area farther south from the country’s tense border with communist North Korea.
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