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In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in response to Sin's comments: "We're looking for North Korea to change its unacceptable behavior, to cease belligerent actions." Separately, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell was to visit South Korea later Wednesday for a two-day trip aimed at discussing the sinking and other pending issues, according to Seoul's Foreign Ministry. Also, about 200 conservative activists rallied in Seoul on Wednesday, criticizing a liberal-leaning civic group for sending U.N. Security Council members e-mails raising questions about the investigation results on the sinking that South Korea reached with U.S., British and other foreign experts. "Go to North Korea!" the activists chanted, engaging in minor scuffles with police trying to stop them from approaching the office of People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy. Officials at the civic group could not immediately be reached for comment on the rally. North and South Korea made separate presentations to the U.N. body Monday over Seoul's request to punish Pyongyang over the sinking. The council said in a statement after the Monday presentations it is concerned the ship sinking could endanger peace on the Korean peninsula, and it urged Seoul and Pyongyang to refrain from any provocative acts. The two Koreas are still technically at war because their 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. The sinking occurred near the disputed western sea border
-- a scene of three bloody maritime battles.
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