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More US Soldiers Assaulted by Yu Yong-won (kysu@chosun.com) The 8th United States Army Command said Friday in a press release that three Koreans at Seoul Station physically and verbally assaulted two soldiers, Thursday morning. It stated that a staff sergeant identified as "M" and a Korean American Corporal "Y" were at Seoul Station to pick up a colleague around 10:30am, when two middle-aged men started to use abusive language and attempted to grab them by throats. The Korean American corporal stopped the two men and the American soldiers were unharmed. The two soldiers then encountered another man in his...

*(Crowd View, US Embassy Protection, Wide Angle Aerial View in front of Seoul City Hall an hour ago, General scenes)By Bill Tarrant (UPDATE) SEOUL (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of South Koreans railed against the U.S. military and mourned two girls killed by American soldiers in a road accident by holding a candle lit march that turned central Seoul into a sea of light on Saturday. Many in the crowd of mostly young people chanted slogans demanding a withdrawal of the U.S. military presence aimed at deterring aggression from North Korea, even as tensions rose with Pyongyang vowing earlier in...