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Student poll conducted by activist group opposes sending Korean troops to Iraq

South Korea's leftist student organization, Hanchonryon, announced this week that a survey it had conducted on 5,730 students in 37 universities across the nation showed that 77.6 percent of them were opposed to sending troops to Iraq.

A Hanchonryon official told a news conference that the country's conservative media is "trying to create public opinion [favoring the deployment as] inevitable for the national interest" and demanded that they stop.

The student organization also declared that it would start collecting one million signatures objecting to the troop deployment and would initiate an "anti-" movement against assemblymen who favor sending combat troops to help "Bush's invasion war" on Iraq.

Despite the fact that almost all the colleges and universities of Korea have members in this organization, Hanchonryon is still branded an illegal organization by Korean government because its radical and pro-North Korea stance.

The student organization forwarded the poll results to the offices of President Roh Moo-Hyun, Grand National Party representative Choi Byong-Ryol and U.S. Ambassador Thomas Hubbard.
East-Asia-Intel, www.eas-asia-intel.com, October 17, 2003
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