South Korean peace group protests after troop relocation announced

Published: 2004-02-20

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (CNS) -- A Catholic-founded peace group is staging an anti-war campaign after South Korea and the United States agreed to a troop relocation. The group Peace Wind is traveling around in a flower-painted van presenting performances and encouraging discussion, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. Father Bartholomew Moon Jung-hyon formed the group in November to encourage South Korean residents to oppose war and any deployment of Korean troops to Iraq. The governments of South Korea and the United States have agreed to move the Eighth U.S. Army and Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command from central Seoul to Pyeongtaek, about 40 miles south of the capital, by 2007. In Pyeongtaek in mid-February, Peace Wind members staged performances and handed out leaflets opposing an expanded U.S. military presence in the area.

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