SEOUL: South Korea's main opposition leader launched an indefinite hunger strike in parliament yesterday to protest against the scrapping of an independent probe into corruption allegations.
Choe Byung-yul, chairman of the Grand National Party (GNP), South Korea's largest political party, began fasting at the National Assembly after a veto by President Roh Moo-hyun triggered a mass revolt by opposition lawmakers.
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