SEOUL ---Police on Thursday arrested a group of progressive college students who tried to rush through the front gate of the US Embassy in Seoul in protest of Washington's demand for a sharp increase in Seoul's share of the upkeep costs for US troops stationed in the country. "Five members from the Progressive Union of University Students were taken (by the police) at around 1:20 p.m. as they attempted to run in through the embassy's front gate," an officer at Jongno Police Station said. Earlier, the students held a news conference near the embassy, denouncing the US call for a hike in South Korea's financial burden for the US troop presence. Th...
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