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SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean activists Monday burnt portraits of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, urging the international community to punish the communist country for conducting a nuclear test.
"Down with Kim Jong-Il!" chanted about 200 conservative activists during a rally in a park in downtown Seoul as they torched a giant North Korean flag.
The North said it carried out a second and more powerful nuclear test Monday, defying international pressure to rein in its nuclear programmes after years of six-nation disarmament talks.
The hardline communist state, which conducted its first nuclear test in October 2006, had threatened another test after the UN Security Council censured it following a long-range rocket launch in April.
The protesters demanded the Security Council impose stronger sanctions against Pyongyang.
"We want the UN and the international community to suspend all aid to North Korea until it completely abandons its nuclear weapons programme," they said in a statement.
They burnt a dozen North Korean flags along with Kim's portraits.
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