Interesting article in the
Chosen Ilbo.
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Some 81 percent of the public oppose violent demonstrations against a planned new U.S. Forces Korea headquarters in Pyeongtaek, 70 km south of Seoul, and 66 percent condemn intervention from outsiders in the matter, a poll suggests. The Office for Government Policy Coordination on Thursday announced results of a poll by TNS Korea of 1,000 adults nationwide.
While the vast majority opposed violent protests, 17 percent said the base expansion must be quashed by violence if necessary. Some 58 percent said the intervention of outsiders claiming to act on behalf of evicted residents at the site was politically motivated, while 35 percent believed it came to help the locals. Sixty percent said protestors wanted the USFK pull out of the peninsula and 34 percent said demonstrators meant to protect the livelihood of locals.
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I found this very interesting. More than 2-1, Koreans thought the police should have been harsher on the protestors!
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Asked about the military's response to the protests, 65 percent said it needs to take harsher measures to protect itself, but 30 percent felt the military was right to restrain itself. Respondents felt the government should accept peaceful demonstrations (49 percent) but curb violence by mobilizing more police (47 percent).
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This is also a staggering number and goes against every poll taken by the youth of Korea.
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An overwhelming majority of 75 percent said it was too early to call for the withdrawal of the USFK, 22 percent said American forces should go. An even bigger majority or 86 percent said activists were unjustified in likening their protests to the 1980 Gwangju Democratic Uprising.
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Meanwhile, the chairmen of the human rights committee of Korea's four main political parties visited Pyeongtaek on Thursday afternoon to meet activists and residents there to hear from them whether government efforts to quell the protests violated protestors' human rights.
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05-12-2006, 12:16 AM
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