Article: Police warn of pepper spray for violent protesters ahead of Bush visit.

SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Yonhap) -- Police will use pepper spray and other tear-producing chemical agents to quell violent rallies, Seoul's police chief warned Friday, a few days ahead of U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to South Korea. Civic organizations on both the right and the left are planning to hold massive rallies this weekend, with the two sides holding sharply conflicting views of the U.S. president, creating a potentially explosive situation. Police here are bracing themselves, much as they did prior to the recent boisterous street rallies against U.S. beef imports, which lasted for months and tended to intensify on weekends. "We will, without exception, use pepper ...

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