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Seoul rules out troop plan change

SEOUL, JUNE 21. South Korea said on Monday it would go ahead with plans to send troops to Iraq despite the abduction of a South Korean man and the televised broadcast of his desperate pleas to stay alive. The kidnapping tested South Korea's resolve just days after the U.S. ally announced it would dispatch 3,000 troops to assist in reconstruction efforts in northern Iraq. Once the deployment is complete, South Korea will be the largest coalition partner after the United States and Britain.

On Sunday, the Arab satellite TV network Al-Jazeera aired a videotape purportedly from Al-Qaida-linked militants showing the South Korean hostage begging for his life and pleading with his Government to withdraw troops from Iraq.

— AP

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