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Korea: Peace march goes ahead

A PLANNED North-South Korea women’s peace march went ahead yesterday by bus, despite South Korea failing to guarantee their safety.

The group of 30 women from 15 countries, including Northern Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire, had made a final appeal to be allowed to walk across the heavily guarded Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two Korean republics but were turned down.

Instead the North Korean government allowed a South Korean bus to pick the women up.

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