Hundreds of protesters clashed with police Sunday near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul during a demonstration against the country's plans to send more troops to Iraq. About 5,000 demonstrators attended, police said, converging on a street in the center of the South Korean capital to urge President Roh Moo-hyun to abandon the troop deployment. This month, South Korea began sending 3,000 troops to northern Iraq to join 660 soldiers already stationed in the country's south. In June, Kim Sun-il, a South Korean who worked for a company that supplies the U.S. military, was beheaded by militants after Seoul refused to bow to their demand to scrap the troop dispatch plans.
