Eight student activists were detained after entering a US military air base in Pyeongtaek, about 60 kilometres south of Seoul, police has said.
The activists, all members of the Korean Progressive University Student Union (KPUSU), breached the main gate of K-55 Osan Air Base at around 10:15 a.m, Caliber.Az reports, citing Korean media.
Six entered the compound while chanting anti-US slogans, including "Let us destroy the U.S. 7th Air Force," while two others were stopped at the entrance.
The United States Forces Korea (USFK) detained the activists before handing them over to South Korean police.
The exact motive for the intrusion was not immediately clear. However, KPUSU later said the protest was aimed at what it described as USFK's obstruction of South Korea's planned semiconductor cluster in the southwestern city of Gwangju.
Seoul has designated a military airport in Gwangju as the site for the proposed chip manufacturing hub, but the US military has argued that relocating the airport could undermine its "important" military interests at the facility.
The student group also cited the recent leakage of white phosphorus at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek as a reason for the protest.
By Bakhtiyar Abbasov
Source: caliber.az
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