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1m nkoreans protest { June 26 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6655650%255E401,00.html http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,6655650%255E401,00.html 1m N Koreans in anti-US rally From correspondents in Seoul June 26, 2003 MORE than one million North Koreans crowded Pyongyang's streets for anti-American rallies today, part of government commemorations marking the 53rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. The crowds vowed to fight US pressure by building nuclear weapons, state media said. It was apparently part of efforts to fuel anti-American sentiment amid the nuclear standoff with the United States. In Seoul, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun marked the war anniversary with appeals to the impoverished North to give up its suspected development of nuclear weapons in return for international aid. Led by senior communist party and state officials, Pyongyang citizens packed streets and plazas, "shaking with towering hatred and resentment against the US imperialists", said North Korea's state-run KCNA news agency. The North has no option other than "bolstering its self-defensive nuclear deterrent force, as the United States is persistently pursuing its strategy to isolate and stifle (it)", Ryang Man Gil, head of Pyongyang's Communist Party office, was quoted as saying in one of the rallies. Washington and its allies are cracking down on alleged North Korean trading in illicit drugs, counterfeit money and weapons while pressing the isolated nation to forsake its nuclear ambitions. North Korea accuses Washington of planning to invade, and has urged the people to rally around the totalitarian regime while sharpening its rhetoric against the West. Meanwhile, South Korea's Roh said his government can never tolerate the North's nuclear ambitions, but that the dispute should be resolved peacefully. "North Korea will receive wide assistance from the international community if it gives up its nuclear programs," Roh said in a speech to 800 South Korean, US, Filipino and Turkish veterans of the war who gathered in a Seoul hotel. "North Korea should not miss this opportunity." Roh vowed to prevent a new war on the peninsula, noting that millions of lives were taken during the Korean War. "Such a tragedy should never be repeated," he said. "Everything we achieved would be brought to naught." Also today, 60 South Korean and US military chaplains held a wreath-laying ceremony at the Korean War museum in Seoul. The nuclear standoff flared in October, when US officials said Pyongyang admitted having a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of a 1994 deal with Washington. Washington and its allies cut off free oil shipments to the North that were part of the 1994 deal. Pyongyang has since expelled UN nuclear inspectors, quit the global nuclear arms control treaty and restarted its frozen atomic facilities. US officials say North Korea has told them that it already has nuclear weapons and planned to build more, but that it is willing to give up its nuclear programs in return for security guarantees and economic benefits. North Korea claims that US forces ignited the 1950-53 Korean War. But most historians agree that the war started with a North Korean invasion on June 25, 1950. It ended in an armistice three years later. Today, the inter-Korean border remains the world's most heavily armed.

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