“We can not ship our younger folks right into a sea of demise!” chanted the protesters, who numbered about 60 in line with an AFP estimate, on the steps outdoors Seoul’s Sejong Middle for the Performing Arts.
The protest got here a day after South Korean defence authorities stated they’d sent a fact-finding mission to evaluate the scenario in Hormuz, whereas stressing that no resolution had been made on any deployment.
South Korea stated on Friday it was contemplating “contributions” to US safety efforts alongside the strait, offered that its personal army readiness was not compromised.
Iran has warned that any South Korean deployment could be “considered direct assist for the social gathering chargeable for that aggression and may have critical penalties”.
Jung Kyung-jik of the civic group Folks’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy informed AFP that he noticed Tehran’s level.
“As Iran has stated, the deployment of our troops to the area would quantity to direct participation in an unlawful warfare,” he stated.
“There have been quite a few violations of worldwide legislation arising from US assaults on Iran, together with the bombing of an elementary college and vitality infrastructure,” he stated.
