Anti-terror precautions

Anti-terror precautions

Last weekend's multiple suicide bomb attacks in the resort
island of Bali proved Indonesia to be the most terror-prone
nation in Asia, but any other country in the region can be the
next target.

International cooperation is vital in antiterror efforts but
we have witnessed no such conspicuous activities by the
governments of the region, which is now seeing rapidly growing
movements of people for tourism and employment. The upcoming 2005
APEC summit in Busan on Nov. 18-19 and ministerial sessions
preceding it should focus on working out practical steps to deter
terrorist infiltration although the annual meeting is basically
an economic forum.

Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan was briefed in Busan last week on
detailed security steps by police who will be helped by military
personnel before and during the summit in the sprawling port
city. Many kinds of high-tech systems and gadgets will be used to
protect visiting VIPs, but more important is the strong
determination of all security personnel to fulfill their mission
in awareness that a terror attack is a real and present danger in
Busan, just as in Bali and New York.
-- The Korea Herald, Seoul