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...support of the international community, should pressure China to temporarily open its border to North Korean refugees and set up a refugee camp for them near the border. This will lead to a mass exodus of famine-stricken North Koreans and the collapse of Kim's regime. James Rhee Ulsan, South Korea...
...been offering the homesick lads ladle after ladle of stewed chickpeas and the national dish, haricot beans (thankfully, antacid is not on the list of proscribed drugs). Spain, too, decided to go easy on the local cuisine. Team members rescued a puppy from a dog-meat stall in an Ulsan market. The fortunate canine, named 'Camach?n' after Spain's coach Jos? Antonio Camacho, is now the unofficial team mascot instead of a menu item. ?By Andrew Finkel and Jane Walker
...deciding Thursday to pursue arrest warrants for union leaders. Judge Lee Sang-chul ordered seven leaders of the outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions to appear in court by Friday morning, and other district courts issued subpoenas for 13 others, including six Hyundai union leaders in the southern city of Ulsan. In overnight raids Thursday, police raided the empty head offices of the outlawed Confederation of Trade Unions and its three subsidiary groups, seizing hundreds of documents and anti-government materials as evidence of their illegal activity, officials said. Confederation leaders plan more demonstrations Saturday, but continue to scale back...
...Ulsan 10,000 riot police battled striking shipyard workers. In Seoul 2,400 police arrested union militants at the headquarters of KBS, the national broadcasting network. Workers at several other companies staged brief sympathy strikes. The latest outbreak of labor unrest was a stiff test of the government's new resolve to deal forcefully with strikers to keep South Korea's faltering economy out of trouble...
Even as Roh and Kim chatted amiably last week, the optimistic mood was disrupted by labor violence. More than 700 disputes continue to fester following a rash of strikes that first broke out in July. At a Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, where walkouts resumed after wage talks collapsed, a striker died and three others were seriously injured when a driver, whom they had beaten, got back into his truck and ran them over. Some 13,000 strikers occupied the yard, smashing windows, setting fire to cars and battling riot police. Late in the week police raided Hyundai...