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Some 300 members of a faction of the Korean Federation of University Student Councils on Wednesday accused the U.S. of misleading the world with claims that North Korea heightened tensions in a peaceful Northeast Asia with its July 5 missile tests. The group, calling itself ¡°an advance team¡± of the Korean Young Students Alliance to Unify the Fatherland, and made up primarily of KFUSC members, held a launch ceremony and press conference near Gwanghwamun at 10 a.m. ¡°North Korea¡¯s missile launches are self-defense measures to protect the country from U.S. schemes to start a war on the peninsula and do not violate any international law,¡± they said.
Scurrilous guidelines for the ¡°Seoul National University advance team¡± posted on the KFUSC website include comments hailing the missile tests. ¡°The U.S. deemed North Korea¡¯s launch of a Taepodong 2 missile a failure, but the truth is that the North deliberately shortened the range¡± of the long-range rocket, which dropped into the sea like a stone 42 seconds after launch. ¡°The North demonstrated its capability to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles without having to fly one 6,000 km near U.S. territory.¡±
The advance team then broke up into sub-groups at noon to hand out leaflets depicting U.S. President George W. Bush with blood on his face, targeting movie theaters that showed the blockbuster movie ¡°The Host.¡± ¡°The U.S. had only itself to blame when North Korea test-fired the missiles,¡± the leaflet says. It claims North Korea has ¡°world-class¡± missile technology and urges the two Koreas to work together in technology development ¡°to join the ranks of global powers.¡±
Members also ripped up the U.S. flag with 300 police looking on. ¡°We concluded they had bought an imitation, not the real one, and did not stop them to avoid unnecessary conflict,¡± a police officer said.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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