World : Dissident Held After N. Korea Talks
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SEOUL — Intelligence agents arrested a dissident leader aboard a plane today as he returned from unauthorized reunification talks in communist North Korea and police rounded up about 800 radicals who protested the arrest.
About 20 officials of the Agency for National Security Planning, South Korea’s main intelligence agency, boarded a Northwest Orient flight from Tokyo and arrested Rev. Moon Ik Hwan, 71, on charges of violating national security laws. Moon’s companion, Yoo Won Ho, was also arrested.
About 4,000 riot policemen ringed Kimpo Airport to prevent radicals from greeting Moon and arrested about 60 dissidents and students who yelled slogans and unfurled banners after sneaking into the terminal.
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