Opposition legislators have traded their occupation of the National Assembly for an agreement by the majority Grand National Party to defer consideration of the trade agreement with the U.S.: South Korea Opposition Ends Occupation of Parliament.
Security tried repeatedly, and unsuccessfully, over the weekend to force the protesting legislators to leave the hall: SKorean parliament clashes leave dozens injured: officials:
About 150 unarmed security guards, acting on the speaker's order, have intermittently attempted to break up the sit-in since Saturday. Some protesters were frogmarched out but most others remained in place by linking arms.
The scuffles inside the National Assembly building have left 53 security guards injured while one of the DP lawmakers had an arm injury, officials said.
I think I missed this bit of news while I was on vacation.
I guess it's not that big a deal to defer it, since it's still stuck in limbo in the US. Maybe Obama will offer some quid-pro-quo for a Republican vote or two to end a filibuster of health care in exchange for allowing the FTA to go forward.
Posted by: kushibo | January 24, 2010 at 11:18 AM