(9 Aug 2007)
1. Pan from protest leader to protesters holding placards and chanting anti-North Korean slogans
2. Protesters holding placards with pictures of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reading: (english) "Down with Kim Jung Il"
3. Pull-out from close-up of North Korean flag being defaced
4. Cutaway of police
5. Protest leader burning North Korean flags and police putting fire out with extinguishers
6. Picture of Kim Jong Il and remnants of burnt flags on ground
7. Wide of picture of Kim being burned and police putting fire out
8. SOUNDBITE: (Korean) Park Chang-sung, Protest Leader:
"We are against this inter-Korea summit because we think this summit is just political manoeuvring for the upcoming presidential election. We want North Korea's denuclearisation and we also strongly demand an end to Kim Jong Il's dictatorship."
9. Pan from police to protester
STORYLINE:
Anti-North Korean protesters held a rally near the presidential palace in Seoul on Thursday to protest against the summit planned for later this month between the leaders of the two Koreas.
The protesters burned flags of the communist country and torched pictures of its leader Kim Jong Il.
South Korea insisted on Thursday that the inter-Korea summit at the end of August would help efforts to rid the communist nation of nuclear weapons.
But protest leader, Park Chang-sung said the summit was "just political manoeuvring" ahead of the upcoming South Korean presidential elections.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is to host South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on August 28-30 in Pyongyang, the second time leaders of the Koreas will meet since their division after World War II.
The United States has welcomed the summit, but said the six-nation disarmament talks remained the main focus for the international community as it seeks to stop North Korea from making nuclear bombs.
North Korea switched off its sole operating nuclear reactor in July as part of a February agreement with the five other countries involved in the six-party talks - the US, Japan, China, Russia and South Korea.
The move was its first step to scale back its nuclear weapons development since the current standoff began in 2002.
North Korea has received 50-thousand tons of heavy oil from South Korea as a reward for that first step, and the energy-starved country is to eventually receive aid equivalent to 950-thousand tons of oil for declaring all its nuclear programs and disabling its facilities.
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