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...Energy Agency. Last February, the government signed a protocol giving the IAEA the right to more information and to inspect sites anywhere in the country. Seoul had six months to make a full declaration of its nuclear research, and the IAEA started asking uncomfortable questions about the institute in Daejon...
...April, lots of lawmakers want to appeal to Chungcheong voters. Shortly after Christmas, the South Korean legislature, with only a handful of dissenters, passed a law stating that the capital would be relocated (along with virtually all government agencies) to a yet-to-be-chosen site near Daejon?taking the center of power away from Seoul after 600 years. Construction is set to begin in 2007, finishing...
...plan has produced plenty of nonelected critics, especially when Roh's initial $5 billion estimate for the move jumped to $38.6 billion in December. They say the relocation of 500,000 people won't unclog Seoul. Landowners in Chungcheong aren't complaining: property prices in Daejon rose faster than any other city's in the first nine months of last year. "It'll be like our version of Washington, D.C.," enthuses Lee Jae Sun, an opposition lawmaker who represents Daejon. What no one denies is that the plan, which still faces major hurdles such as an intended campaign to oppose...
SEOUL: As riot police fired tear gas canisters, 3,000 protesters in downtown Seoul hurled chunks of concrete ripped from sidewalks and beat police with pipes, shouting "No to the evil law!" Similar clashes involving thousands of marchers occurred in Anyang city, near Seoul, and in Daejon, south of the capital, where seven workers were hospitalized after being clubbed by police, and eight others were detained for questioning. The government is coupling the crackdown on the streets with one in the courts, deciding Thursday to pursue arrest warrants for union leaders. Judge Lee Sang-chul ordered seven leaders...
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